On Tuesday 15 August 2017 09.17, ox wrote: > Hi All, > > Some spammers are now sending "verify your email account" spam abuse.
I would say that sending a single unsolicited "verify your email account" IS SPAM The keyword here is "unsolicited" This is not the same as a mail sent as a respons to some action done, subscribe or purchase from someone. That "verify your email account" is legitimate. But unsolicited is always spam. > > When an email address is submitted and a vendor confirms that email > address (prior to subscribing it to a bulk mail list, etc) : > > imho, sending a single (one) email to verify/confirm every 24 hour > period - with a maximum of two verify/confirms reminders (one per 24 > hour period) - is not abuse. > > But sending more than one verify/confirm email, in a single 24 hour > period - and sending more than 3 emails in total - in any period - is > abuse. > > I know that I have used the spammer, twitter.com before as an example, > but they are good examples to use. > > Twitter.com seems to never remove their victims email addresses (and > even ignores unsubscribe requests). Twitter.com also seems to go > through bursts of activity and sends many confirmation emails to > spamtraps (accounts that has never existed and only exists in stolen > databases - i.e not real person/people) - whether criminals or third > parties submit these fake email addresses to twitter.com or how > twitter.com obtains these addresses are not relevant to this thread > > What is relevant is: Do you agree that sending "more than 3 verify your > email account" is abuse? > > If you do not agree, what do you think that number should be? > > How many "verify your email address" and reminders to confirm, etc. is > not abuse, in your opinion? > > Like I said, I think one in 24 hours and a total of three, seems > reasonable to me. > > Thanks! > > Andre > > -- Peter Håkanson There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it again ... and again ... and again ... and again. ( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )