Hi Mike, Aside from stating categorically that we're not interested in monetizing the reports like Validity are doing, the only other thing I can suggest is that you look at the history of what we've done in the past. We've provided the Abuse ContactDB as a free service for well over 10 years (used by many places including Fail2Ban etc.), we've contributed XARF to the community and are providing Global Reporting, which is a free Abuse Reporting Service (of which we'll be using 99% of the code already written to implement this Feedback Loop functionality).
The whole point about backing the Draft RFC is also to open it up as much as possible. The current state means that you either pay Validity or you don't get anything, period. They have the current monopoly and zero competition which is why they can do this in the first place. I'd also like to point out that there is absolutely no guarantee that any mailbox providers will come across to us either; that will take persuasion from the industry, but we make it as easy as possible with this service, they're effectively swapping one email address with another. Why would a mailbox provider, right now, bother to put the development time into implementing a draft RFC that (at the time of writing) only two entities are using? (CleverReach and Onmivary with ActiveCampaign to follow soon), they would also have the on-going management and approval of new CFBL-Addresses to deal with as well. The point is; we can implement this pretty quickly with a few code changes on our end to something we've already been working on for months and provide an alternative to Validity and help get the draft RFC more widely implemented - at which point with much wider adoption, it makes it far more easy (and therefore likely) for mailbox providers to implement this themselves if they wish to, or for other entities to offer a similar service should they choose. That's surely better than the current status quo and sitting back and doing nothing, right? Kind regards, Steve. On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 20:43, Mike Hillyer <m...@mikehillyer.com> wrote: > I think the first question anyone will ask is "How do we know that Abusix > won't eventually become Validity 2: the Abusix Remix"? I do like the idea > of pushing the RFC, but if you're in the middle many of those MBPs will > likely defer to a new middle-man to handle the implementation, and we're > back at a single vendor. > > Mike > ------------------------------ > *From:* mailop <mailop-boun...@mailop.org> on behalf of Steve Freegard > via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> > *Sent:* Thursday, September 21, 2023 12:05 PM > *To:* Support 3Hound <supp...@3hound.com> > *Cc:* mailop@mailop.org <mailop@mailop.org> > *Subject:* Re: [mailop] New Validity policy for paid FBL (ARF) > > Just saw this thread; I published this earlier today and we're likely > going to discuss it at M3AAWG: https://abusix.com/feedback-loops/ > > TLDR; Abusix is willing to take this on and provide it as a free service > from any mailbox provider that wishes to participate, but we'll do it based > on the Independent RFC Draft using CFBL-Address, so we don't just end up > swapping out Validity for us, we help adopt a standard that any mailbox > provider can use going forward if they wish. > Putting us in the middle just means that we take on the burden of > processing, wrapping and delivering the reports and approving the > CFBL-Addresses that can receive them and producing some high-level > statistics that might be interesting at the same time. > > Kind regards, > Steve. > > > On Mon, 11 Sept 2023 at 12:29, Support 3Hound via mailop < > mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > Dear list, > I would like to understand what the community think about the new Validity > universal feedback loop service that is switching to a paid service > starting 21 September 2023. > > As Validity worked in the the last years to achieve the management of the > FBL service from all the "main" country-level and international mailbox > providers (as the "universal" word suggest), I think that this new policy > is unfair and a very bad news for the mail operators community. > > During years the FBL became a kind of "safe feature" for users that prefer > to click "junk" or "spam" and be sure they will not receive anymore. > > The "one click unsubscribe/ List-unsubscribe header" should be the right > way to do that... true! 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