Hello everyone, a friend informed me about a topic going on about the Certified Senders Alliance on this mailing list. That’s why I joined it. I work for the CSA for many years now. First and foremost of all: It is definitely not true that a sender can join the CSA without any vetting. That statement bothered me a lot, because it’s a plain lie. Maybe because important information was lost in some communication between more than two parties, I don’t want to assume ill intent by anybody. In fact from every sender who wants to get certified and be whitelisted only about 10% make it through the whole process and are approved. Btw: the certification needs to be confirmed by the certification committee in which 2 seats out of 4 are major ISP partners. I totally agree that if you have delivery issues it shouldn’t be the first step to reach out any certification program to fix it. And this is not how CSA works. If a sender has delivery issues, in 99% these problems are justified and self made. So what the CSA does is, that in the process we find potential issues and help senders to align with current best practices aka. the CSA admission criteria. This whole process can take weeks and months and still many senders don’t achieve a certification in the end, because we take that very serious. Anybody on this mailing list, please feel free to have a look at our criteria and see for yourself if they are reasonable or not. As everything we do is completely transparent, you can find them on https://certified-senders.org/library either at the end, or you can select the type “CSA specific” to filter.
Sorry about this rant-ish post, but we try our best to improve overall quality of senders, so the initial post kind of annoyed me. Anyway. I am open for discussion either here, direct with me or for example on the next M3AAWG meeting in person. Best Alex -- Best regards Alexander Zeh Engineering Manager --------------------------------------------------- eco - Association of the Internet Industry Certified Senders Alliance Lichtstrasse 43h 50825 Cologne Germany phone: +49 (0) 221 - 70 00 48 - 171 fax: +49 (0) 221 - 70 00 48 - 111 mobile: +49 (0) 171 - 657 2628 e-mail: alexander....@eco.de web: http://www.eco.de --------------------------------------------------- eco - Association of the Internet Industry CEO: Harald A. Summa Executive board: Prof. Michael Rotert (Chairman), Oliver Süme (Deputy Chairman), Klaus Landefeld, Felix Höger, Prof. Dr. Norbert Pohlmann Register of Associations: District court (Amtsgericht) Cologne, VR 14478 Registered office: Cologne
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