On 4/23/16 5:34 PM, Eric Henson wrote:
My email servers send less than 10,000 emails a day, and probably only a single email to
some random German mail host like the one that got me tagged. If they flag that single
email as spam, then it's quite likely that they view that as my email server sending 100%
spam, since that's the sample they have. ET sends thousands (millions?) of
"ham" emails a day so it's much easier for you to maintain a good ham:spam
ratio. Plus, you have automated systems to deal with bounces, that I don't have.
If the random German mail host is a specific spamtrap address, then one
mail is likely to indeed get you listed. If it's a spamtrap domain,
particularly one that's easily typo'ed, it's likely too much of a hair
trigger.
Exact Target may indeed send thousands (millions) of ham emails a day.
My personal experience on the receiving end since 2014 is:
0% Transactional.
0% Generic spam (phishing, malware, pills, porn, etc.)
0% Confirmed opt-in subscribed bonafide bulk commercial ham.
21% Unconfirmed opt-in subscribed bulk ham.
51% Bulk advertisements from firms that I have done business with but
where I have not specifically subscribed to a list (either no option to
subscribe or unchecked the box) - technically spam but unfortunately
becoming very common.
28% bulk advertisements from firms with which I have never done
business but are in my industry (spam, but targeted spam, hence the name
"Exact Target" perhaps). Those get added to the Boulder Pledge list
maintained by our company's purchasing department.
This pattern is similar to that of most ESPs that send mail to me. Some
are much better regarding the last category, one in particular is
egregiously worse. That's you, Marketo.
Nobody's perfect. Mailchimp is one of the best, but today I got a Paypal
phish from one of their IPs via an outfit called mandrill.com. Contrary
to the domain that isn't a gay porn site! I got a prompt response from a
human (or perhaps an extremely good script) thanking me and stating that
they had addressed the issue.
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Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - [email protected]
Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/
Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV
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