Thanks to everyone who replied.
First and most important, thank you to *Mail*gun.
On 2025-05-01 09:24, Nick Schafer wrote:
> Happy to assist with getting the spam coming from Mailgun addressed.
> Can you send me some more details about the spam you’re receiving?
Replied off-list.
The use of *spam*gun in the subject was not intended to misname the
company. it was my frustration with email: these days, the vast
majority of "legitimate" email I receive is spam: it does not add value
to me, and it wastes my time and resources.
On 2025-05-01 07:47, Marco Moock via mailop wrote:
If nobody reports it, nobody will cut off the spamming customer.
It is a chicken and egg problem. My experience with reporting is that
it makes no difference and cost me time. My experience with blocking
the source makes some difference. Better cost/benefit-ratio. For now,
it seems that most businesses route their transactional and
human/personal emails through different SMTP servers than the automated
spam, and that helps me discern between the emails I want and those that
they believe I should want but I override and block.
As I don't accept such a behavior, I block such servers at all with an
appropriate message.
What is an "appropriate message?" silently dropping is a message too.
For almost 30 years, I have isolated non-human senders by assigning to
each a dedicated alias. It was easy to drop the alias (and the sender)
when they were hacked or when they misbehaved.
These days, the commercial senders share my contact details with their
subcontractors, often with questionable practices. Just a few examples:
I need no reminders. Certainly not repeated ones at multiple intervals
before the webinar or the hotel room I paid for. I manage my own
calendar that reminds me of what I decide is important. The rest is spam.
I need no tracking update. This week FedEx sent me about a dozen emails
on a package. One initial email with a tracking list (and the bill /
custom brokerage details, etc.) is enough. With the tracking list, I
can decide if, and how many times, I need a tracking update. Frankly:
I don't care, and those emails are annoying waste of my time.
The protein seller who think that an unsubscribe from review requests is
applicable only to the specific order/product. Sadly, in my location,
they have the best quality/price. I won't sabotage my purchasing. When
reporting them did not work, I simply blocked the third-party service
they used for this annoyance.
And the list goes on. And on. And on.
The worse one was my then domain name registrar. I expected a domain
name registrar to use my email only for serious and important
communication about my domain. I had that specific address skip all
filters and trigger my phone directly. They did not understand my
feedback when I told them not to send me marketing stuff on that email.
I changed registrar. The one I use now is respectful of my choices.
Yuv
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