On 9/29/2018 11:46 AM, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
No-one should be 'too big to block' ... I've said this for years.. the industry is catching up. Spam is spam, if you let some get away with it, everyone will expect the same (or try to become too big, or worse, if they are 'too big', stop caring because they know they are safe because they are 'too big'...)
If I had taken meticulous notes on some of these things I'm about to mention - and shared them with the world - people would be shocked at how much spam we're all getting from large ISPs and hosters (including Fortune 100 tech company mail systems) due to them taking on the "we're too big to block" mentality -AND- I've even had some of THEM request than their customers' domain names be delisted from invaluement - and where they made that request while that domain was STILL hosting pill or porn spam. My push back in those situations was merciless. But this isn't such an easy issue when blacklisting a large provider's own sending-IPs would cause massive collateral damage. Please note that I don't like that reality and I hate it probably as much as anyone.
BOTTOM LINE: the consolidation in recent years towards moving SO MANY mailboxes to a SMALL number of LARGE providers (O356, Google, ProofPoint, Godaddy, etc) - is DAMAGING the industry. (I think that is slowing down now? ...which is a good thing!) In contrast, when the market share is spread between MANY small or medium-sized hosters - then when THEY have security problems - they are motivated to fix them ASAP - since they aren't "too big to block" - and they also try HARDER to prevent those from happening again.
-- Rob McEwen https://www.invaluement.com
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