> On Oct 15, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Jay Hennigan <mailop-l...@keycodes.com> wrote: > > I've been getting an increasing amount of spam to various of my addresses > some of which have not been been actively used for some time. The amount of > spam received is kicking upward fairly rapidly. > > All of this spam is sent by a third-party, not the company whose primary > domain appears in the "From". > > The content of this spam seems to be somewhat related to my interests in most > cases but definitely not from anyone from whom I've given permission. > > In investigating this third-party mailer I came across this interesting > policy: > > "Unsolicited Email" is defined as email sent to persons other than: > (i) persons with whom you have an existing business relationship, OR > (ii) persons who have consented to the receipt of such email, > including publishing or providing their email address in a manner > from which consent to receive email of the type transmitted may be > reasonably implied. > > It's section (ii) that concerns me. Scraping addresses from Usenet, blogs, > comments, or subscribed discussion lists could easily fall under > "Publishing", could it not? > > What is the opinion of this group, is this policy that of a legitimate ESP or > a garden-variety spammer?
There's no way to tell just from that policy. If I put up a web page with a pr@ address and state that I'm interested in press releases in a given field then (arguably relevant) press releases sent to that address are not unsolicited. It's a reasonable policy. How it's interpreted and enforced makes the difference. What response you get from the third-party mailer is more telling. If you're getting significant volumes of unwanted email from multiple customers of that ESP, then they're probably either incompetent or spam-friendly. If you're getting significant volumes from one or two customers of that ESP, *and you've not told abuse@ about it*, then it's possible they're a perfectly competent, reasonable ESP and have a couple of customers with just slightly crappy list acquisition practices. If it's the ESP I think it is, they're a legitimate ESP with a reasonably responsive abuse desk but don't have the squeakiest cleanest customer base. Cheers, Steve > > -- > Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - j...@impulse.net > Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ > Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop
