On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:09 AM Jay Hennigan via mailop <[email protected]> wrote: [snip]
> > Or take the chance and hit the "Unsubscribe" link on something to which > you never subscribed. This risks the possibility that your address will > be sold to other spammers as "one who has responded to similar offers". > The spammer knows that you took the time to read the message, and you > did in fact respond. > I realize that this is the assumed correct thought on unsub, but I wonder how true it actually is. At one point I did a simple query to see what percentage of our active user base received a spam mail attempt in a week period ... and iirc the number was somewhere in the 80+% range. I mean, there are billions of addresses available on the web with passwords from various hacks, just as one example. I've watched some old tagged addresses of my own get passed around or wind up in various lists when companies go out of business or are hacked. On top of that, I find it hard to believe that most of the larger spammers we see have any real targeting. They're willing to make billions of attempts just to have some number wind up in the spam label, it's all a numbers games to them, they're not attempting to stay on the right side of any reputation or other system with partial credit, or hew as closely to that line as possible. I realize there are different levels of spammers, of course, and plenty who think they're legit and trying to play those games, and we shouldn't encourage them either... Brandon
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