Re: [mailop] So uh... Zoom/Sendgrid... How's that webinar spam investigation coming? - the MEME
On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, G. Miliotis via mailop wrote: On 2021-08-05 21:51, Brielle via mailop wrote: Looks like some of the topics of the spam is starting to gravitate towards current events... ESP to spamming customer: "improve the quality of your mailings, stop sending people mail they don't want or we will have to ask you again to stop, repeatedly - btw your invoice is due" Would it help if the ESPs charged extra for messages that were not accepted ? Or would that a) encourage list-washing b) give ESPs perverse incentives that increased spam ? I assume that automation and competition means that margins for ESPs are too tight for them to have a competent person in (some branches of) the loop ? One thought would be that after a certain number of failed deliveries the message is frozen until cleared by a human. -- Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK and...@aitchison.me.uk ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
Re: [mailop] So uh... Zoom/Sendgrid... How's that webinar spam investigation coming? - the MEME
On 2021-08-05 21:51, Brielle via mailop wrote: Looks like some of the topics of the spam is starting to gravitate towards current events... ESP to spamming customer: "improve the quality of your mailings, stop sending people mail they don't want or we will have to ask you again to stop, repeatedly - btw your invoice is due" spamming customer: goes through queue, deletes old spam mailings. Sends new spam dealing with current events, considers it "relevant" and therefore desirable. Sees nothing wrong with this. The Internet: still doesn't block ESP Users: Maybe I should buy one of those Vietnamese coronavirus masks - some die of coronavirus Mail admins: FML E-mail as a whole: In the ICU Enjoy your summer everyone! --GM ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
