On 13/06/2016 19:31, Jay Hennigan wrote:
What legitimate reason would an ESP have to shield the identity of a permission-based sender from its recipients? What legitimate sender uses an ESP to send permission-based mail anonymously?
The problem is that there are privacy laws (eg data protection laws in the EU). (I suppose the ESP could have the user sign those away in their Ts & Cs, but I am not a lawyer so I don't know how easy that would be.) Privacy laws are different in different countries which makes it a bit of a nightmare and the penalties for revealing information without a court request can be severe. I'd expect that every request to reveal the information would need to be passed through a lawyer who understands the laws of the requester's country and the sender's country and how they interact. It's a lot cheaper & safer to just refuse requests.
OTOH. I'd expect mailing list services not to allow anonymous email, and to suspend/cancel the accounts of anyone who sends it. They have their own reputation to protect jealously, and anonymous email is likely to damage that.
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