Yup, believe that happens in California a lot. Signing up to vote too it happens.
On Tue, May 28, 2019, 6:31 PM Michael Wise via mailop <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Or … someone using a known spamtrap address on a DMV email contact > address, and then that list being handed over to their apparent Member of > Congress, who proceeded to send constituent emails to it … on the grounds > that of course it was Opt-In (but not verified by a round-trip > confirmation). > > > > Based on a True Story. > > > > Aloha, > > Michael. > > -- > > *Michael J Wise* > Microsoft Corporation| Spam Analysis > > "Your Spam Specimen Has Been Processed." > > Got the Junk Mail Reporting Tool > <http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18275> ? > > > > *From:* mailop <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Rob McEwen via > mailop > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 28, 2019 3:05 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [mailop] About to blacklist Marketo - has anyone received > non-spam from them? > > > > On 5/28/2019 4:21 PM, Brett Schenker via mailop wrote: > > Two real world examples would be elected officials to be contacted and > some corporations to be contacted. The former absolutely has reasons to be > bulk emailed, the latter possibly too. Both would be "published" email > addresses. For your average person, probably not but it's not a hard 100% > rule as stated. > > > This would apply to someone hand-typing an email sent via regular email > hosting (not an ESP) to their elected representative, which absolutely > wouldn't be spam. However, it would *still* be spam for a sender to > subscribe such an email address to mailing list sent via an ESP if there > wasn't either COI or some kind of direct and explicit business relationship > between that specific email address' past usage - and the sender. > > (I worded it this way because - suppose an elected Representative became a > member of an organization and started receiving non-spam emails from them - > this permission is then still limited to the particular email used for that > signup or login (etc) - and therefore some kind of OTHER "role account" > email for that Representative's office, that is displayed online, shouldn't > also be added to such a distribution list by the sender.) > > -- > > Rob McEwen > > https://www.invaluement.com > <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.invaluement.com&data=02%7C01%7Cmichael.wise%40microsoft.com%7C603530bdcb9b4965935208d6e3b9eb53%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636946785001784920&sdata=wiu%2FZTG%2BpK6ZnvArdNPodUHKWh1nXbQshIJ6gMld6hk%3D&reserved=0> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > [email protected] > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop >
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