Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-08-01 Thread Brandon Long via mailop
I would caution against assuming that legal analysis is required to match technical analysis. At the least, any legal proceedings would involve a lot of argument over exactly what the words in the statute mean, what the intent of the legislature was, and whether reasonable attempts were made to me

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-08-01 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 8/1/22 9:59 AM, WIlliam Fisher via mailop wrote: This is purely a "punish big tech for us not following rules" bill. Any time someone says / implies "do what I say, not what I do" I become highly suspicious of the veracity of their statement. If the laws aren't good enough for you, then t

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-08-01 Thread WIlliam Fisher via mailop
They don't care. This is purely a "punish big tech for us not following rules" bill. On 8/1/22 8:46 AM, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: On 2022-08-01 at 05:12:01 UTC-0400 (Mon, 1 Aug 2022 11:12:01 +0200) Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop is rumored to have said: Dnia  1.08.2022 o godz. 08:26:56 Dan Mal

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-08-01 Thread WIlliam Fisher via mailop
There is a definite bias in American political e-mail, but it has nothing to do with actual politics. Blue e-mail tends to follow best sending practices, mostly uses good carriers, etc.  (I said mostly) Red e-mail tends to not follow best practices, use the cheapest and less reputable carrie

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-08-01 Thread Anne Mitchell via mailop
On 2022-07-30 21:07, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: > > I think in this case we all know what they're doing and you've hit it dead > on. They're targeting Gmail and they're not really interested in anyone else. Which is one reason the bill may not go any further, because now that Google ha

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-08-01 Thread Anne Mitchell via mailop
> On Jul 31, 2022, at 1:29 PM, Laura Atkins via mailop > wrote: > > The research paper seems reasonably well done and I encourage people to > actually read it and their conclusions rather than paying attention to the > popular press takes on it. Totally agreed and, in fact, my understandin

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-08-01 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 2022-08-01 at 05:12:01 UTC-0400 (Mon, 1 Aug 2022 11:12:01 +0200) Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop is rumored to have said: Dnia 1.08.2022 o godz. 08:26:56 Dan Malm via mailop pisze: But the only way you can get gmail to "use a filtering algorithm to apply a label" would be for yourself to "take

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-08-01 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 1.08.2022 o godz. 08:26:56 Dan Malm via mailop pisze: > > But the only way you can get gmail to "use a filtering algorithm to apply a > label" would be for yourself to "take action to apply such a label" by > creating a filter yourself... Gmail doesn't apply labels to spam, it places > the s

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-31 Thread Dan Malm via mailop
On 2022-07-30 21:07, Jarland Donnell via mailop wrote: I think in this case we all know what they're doing and you've hit it dead on. They're targeting Gmail and they're not really interested in anyone else. But the only way you can get gmail to "use a filtering algorithm to apply a label" wo

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-31 Thread Laura Atkins via mailop
The research paper seems reasonably well done and I encourage people to actually read it and their conclusions rather than paying attention to the popular press takes on it. Laura Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2022, at 7:54 PM, Larry M. Smith via mailop > wrote: > > On 7/29/2022, Anne

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-30 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022, Justin Scott via mailop wrote: Interestingly any email "operator" with fewer than 500 employees or less than $5 billion in annual revenue is exempt, so clearly targeted at the major providers and not self-hosted operators or small hosting companies, thankfully. Yes, but an

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-30 Thread Michael Rathbun via mailop
On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 18:44:10 +, "Larry M. Smith via mailop" wrote: >.. I really don't know, but I tend to discount the belief that this is a >conspiracy against them. Looking over the past seven years' data, I find that exactly one Democrat campaign purchased an address that delivers here.

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-30 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
I think in this case we all know what they're doing and you've hit it dead on. They're targeting Gmail and they're not really interested in anyone else. On 2022-07-30 11:16, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote: I'm not an American, so it's basically "not my fairy-tale" (as we say in our country), b

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-30 Thread Larry M. Smith via mailop
On 7/29/2022, Anne Mitchell via mailop wrote: I want to be sure that everyone here is aware of a piece of pending legislation in the U.S. that is in committee in both the House and the Senate right now. It's called the Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022 (BIAS is short for “Bias In Algorithm Sor

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-30 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
I'm not an American, so it's basically "not my fairy-tale" (as we say in our country), but I can't stop wondering at the use of the word "label" in the proposed regulation. I already asked (in a bit sarcastic tone) in one of the previous emails, what is a "label" in context of email in general. Be

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-30 Thread Hal Murray via mailop
Is there any hard data? This seems like thesis bait. I'd expect there to be a steady trickle of papers or reports with good data on political spam. Where are they? I hear lots of complaints by conservatives/Republicans that the spam filters are biased against them. If they send more spam,

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-29 Thread Luis E . Muñoz via mailop
On 29 Jul 2022, at 14:32, Anne Mitchell via mailop wrote: I want to be sure that everyone here is aware of a piece of pending legislation in the U.S. that is in committee in both the House and the Senate right now. It's called the Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022 (BIAS is short for “Bias In A

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-29 Thread Michael Rathbun via mailop
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 20:42:43 -0400, Brett Schenker via mailop wrote: >"They can say whatever they want, but .. I'm +1 with John. They have a >*lot* to learn about email and how it works" > >Unless the language has changed since I read it, it says you need to report >on how much goes to spam. If y

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-29 Thread Brett Schenker via mailop
"They can say whatever they want, but .. I'm +1 with John. They have a *lot* to learn about email and how it works" Unless the language has changed since I read it, it says you need to report on how much goes to spam. If you send it to quarantine instead, you can still report it as 0 going to spam

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-29 Thread Michael Rathbun via mailop
On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:11:24 -0700, Justin Scott via mailop wrote: >Interestingly any email "operator" with fewer than 500 employees or less >than $5 billion in annual revenue is exempt, so clearly targeted at the >major providers and not self-hosted operators or small hosting companies, >thankfu

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-29 Thread Jarland Donnell via mailop
The humorous part is that they actually think "label" is in any way a reasonable word to use. Quite easy to comply with, I promise not to apply any labels! I'll just 5xx it... On 2022-07-29 13:32, Anne Mitchell via mailop wrote: I want to be sure that everyone here is aware of a piece of pendi

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-29 Thread Udeme Ukutt via mailop
They can say whatever they want, but .. I'm +1 with John. They have a *lot* to learn about email and how it works. R's, Udeme On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 5:06 PM John Levine via mailop wrote: > It appears that Anne Mitchell via mailop said: > >I want to be sure that everyone here is aware of a pie

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-29 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Anne Mitchell via mailop said: >I want to be sure that everyone here is aware of a piece of pending >legislation in the U.S. that is in >committee in both the House and the Senate right now. It's called the >Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022 >(BIAS is short for “Bias In Algorithm

Re: [mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-29 Thread Justin Scott via mailop
Interestingly any email "operator" with fewer than 500 employees or less than $5 billion in annual revenue is exempt, so clearly targeted at the major providers and not self-hosted operators or small hosting companies, thankfully. The issues on how an email operator is supposed to identify what em

[mailop] HR 8160 and SB 4409: The "You're not allowed to run political campaign email through your spam filter" act

2022-07-29 Thread Anne Mitchell via mailop
I want to be sure that everyone here is aware of a piece of pending legislation in the U.S. that is in committee in both the House and the Senate right now. It's called the Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022 (BIAS is short for “Bias In Algorithm Sorting”), and it requires that, and I quote: “It