On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:42:07 -0700, Brandon Long via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
>No comments from this side, obviously... except that everything old is new >again: > >https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+campaign+email+gmail+spam We've had a fair bit of success reverse-engineering Google's placement algorithms, which has given us lots of good material to tighten up our hosted clients' operations. I would speculate that the burden of proof the plaintiff would need will be very difficult to obtain, as they would need to demonstrate the existence of a specific rule in the system at Google that would single out some aspect of the sender's traffic that invoked special treatment. Based on that understanding, and my own personal experience seeing tagged addresses given specifically to a particular candidate or cause being sold or shared across political spectra, I would say that Tulsi probably has the inbox rate that one would expect, given the likely complaint rate and degree of likely recipient engagement. I know that some campaigns (can't say anything about Tulsi -- one of the few candidates I haven't heard from) purchase e-pended data sets. For example, I have a tagged address used only to order a hat from a veterans' supply store that now attracts Democrat and Republican campaign communications. The latest hog at the trough is the Governor of Montana. (For some reason, jets.com bought that db and concluded that I'm well enough off to be chartering air transport on a regular basis.) But, she does need some publicity, and assaults on large tech firms is all the rage these days. If I were opposed to her candidacy (which, generally, I am) I would welcome the suit as a way to drain her monetary resources without hope of recompense. >Also, doesn't CAN-SPAM only apply to senders? To the extent that it applies to anything effectively, yes. Unless it doesn't, in which case it won't. mdr -- "There are no laws here, only agreements." -- Masahiko _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
