On 1/16/20 07:44, Jesse Thompson via mailop wrote:
On the other side of the coin, recipients within the same institution
are constantly baffled why they keep getting unsolicited marketing from
companies who, by all appearances, are playing by the rules (except for
the unsolicited part, of course) and can't realistically be classified
as spam by anyone who assumes that marketers aren't all skirting the rules.
...(except for the unsolicited part, of course)...
...can't realistically be classified as spam...
Isn't that the very definition of spam? It's unsolicited, it's bulk, and
it's email.
Another factor that complicates things is that users are afraid to
unsubscribe (to send the signal directly to the marketer)
1) when the message was obviously unsolicited
2) because they're constantly told not to click on links within spam
messages
IMHO, they shouldn't unsubscribe. This validates their address and the
fact that they open and read spam. Unsubscribing to spam gets your
address sold to other spammers as "One who has responded to similar
messages." They should report the spam as abuse. And, as you suggest,
the unsubscribe link could very well be malware.
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Jay Hennigan - j...@west.net
Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
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