On 2021-12-06 at 05:12:27 UTC-0500 (Mon, 6 Dec 2021 11:12:27 +0100)
Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop <r...@rafa.eu.org>
is rumored to have said:
Dnia 5.12.2021 o godz. 18:58:21 Fernando Cassia via mailop pisze:
Emails sent to the phased out domains, Roadrunner.com or
rr.com, are being flagged by email providers as spam or used as spam
traps.
I wonder what this sentence might mean. Emails sent to @rr.com are
marked as
spam... by whom? The only entity who can mark them as spam is the
recipient,
ie. current operator of the rr.com domain, isn't it? This should not
impact
delivery to other domains/mail providers. So I do not understand what
the
author of this sentence is trying to say...
That appears to be a mailing list operator explaining why they will not
allow subscriptions from rr.com addresses.
The corporate entities that used the "RoadRunner" brand and gave their
customers rr.com addresses haven't given out new rr.com addresses in
many years. Many people with old and no longer needed email addresses,
especially ones in widely-recognized domains (e.g. rr.com, one of the
first large residential cable Internet ISPs in the US) donate them to
spam-detection operations as traps, and there are people who use such
trap addresses to test the subscription practices of mailing list
operators. There is also a problem that receiving systems may have
decided that 'rr.com' is an indication of spam, so that people who use
an rr.com address as a mailing list user may cause the list traffic to
get marked as spam and causing a cascade of deliverability proiblems.
Some mailing list operators (as above) respond by refusing to allow
subscriptions from domains they perceive as obsolete.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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