On 2/20/2018 12:21 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
we have well working outbound spamfilters
Excellent!
but just because someone has a google-shortener within a mail says *nothing at all* - frankly i even got a week ago a mail from my boss where the google-shortener was used for a only internal reachable server with a long list of params in the url and hence the google-shortener don't say anything
This is a very abused loophole that says MUCH in certain contexts. And I've carefully constructed these change at invaluement to be extremely unlikely to impact those who are using "goo .gl" for legitimate purposes and are not using it to cloak their domain in messages that are UBE or otherwise not desired by the recipients. But, in contrast, marketers and/or ESPs who start doing this routingly, as a purposeful regular practice, and who don't have some kind of real and specific purpose such as what that you described, are essentially giving DNSBLs and spam filters "the middle finger". So I'm giving it back. ANYTHING that facilitates anonymizing identity is VERY BAD for email. Facilitating anonymizing identity causes more spam to be delivered and punishes good senders when bad senders get away with that. Methods that facilitates anonymizing identity for email is not something that anyone should defend or celebrate - even if anonymizing identity wasn't the original intended purpose. I understand your very legitimate concern that this crackdown might lead to collateral damage. That is admirable. But acceptance of a new and pervasive situation in email that anonymizes identity is a HUGE step backwards... like going back to the mid 2000s, or something. So some "push back" measures are exceedingly warranted.
-- Rob McEwen https://www.invaluement.com +1 (478) 475-9032
