On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 01:19:29PM +0100, Sebastian Nielsen via mailop wrote:
> [...] The headers include enough info for them to find the mail in their
> systems. [...]
This is probably technically correct in that they almost certainly can do
this. But all evidence points to them never actually bothering, since abuse
reports are apparently all handled by Dave Null who doesn't know how to do
anything other than respond with a precanned bland platitude and throw the
report away. Maybe there is an actual abuse desk staffed by people who care,
but that's now how it appears, and POSIWID.
Google might believe themselves to be too big to block and thus not need to
care about externalities imposed on the rest of the Internet, but
long-suffering victims of their spam firehose[0] might wish to consider
blocking them anyway, even if only for recipients whose inboxes are being
completely battered by this and know what they're opting in to.
[0] And if your job also involves web servers, the onslaught of abusive
crawlers and exploit scanners coming from GCP. Dave also deals with
those abuse reports.
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