The research paper seems reasonably well done and I encourage people to actually read it and their conclusions rather than paying attention to the popular press takes on it.
Laura Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2022, at 7:54 PM, Larry M. Smith via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> > wrote: > > On 7/29/2022, Anne Mitchell via mailop wrote: >> I want to be sure that everyone here is aware of a piece of pending >> legislation in the U.S. that is in committee in both the House and the >> Senate right now. It's called the Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022 (BIAS is >> short for “Bias In Algorithm Sorting”), and it requires that, and I quote: >> “It shall be unlawful for an operator of an email service to use a filtering >> algorithm to apply a label to an email sent to an email account from a >> political campaign unless the owner or user of the account took action to >> apply such a label.” >> It is getting relatively very little press, and of course the chances of it >> passing are greater if nobody knows to oppose it. >> We've written an article about it, which includes what to do, whom to >> contact and how, etc., and which includes all relevant links, here: >> https://www.isipp.com/blog/do-you-want-political-email-to-bypass-spam-filters-and-go-directly-to-your-inbox-congress-does-heres-what-to-do/ >> Feel free to share - in fact please do, if this thing passes it's the >> camel's nose under the tent. > > IIRC, this all started because a research paper somewhere noted that a > specific political party seemed to have more deliverability issues than the > other prominent party did. Fast forward a bit and <sarcasm> there exists a > vast conspiracy in anti-spam against that specific political party </sarcasm>. > > I can't speak to all anti-spam systems, but the vast majority of them work on > behavioral models and not some list of word that someone has entered into a > list somewhere. > > I have noted that a large number that political party's members seem to be > quick to label those that disagree with some its policies and positions as > either the enemy or disloyal. Perhaps it is an attitude "I will do what I > want, and if you disagree with me, then you are some sort of commie scum," > that has resulted in them not following advise offered to them, so that they > don't look like a bunch of spammers taking a bump all over everyone's inboxes. > > .. I really don't know, but I tend to discount the belief that this is a > conspiracy against them. > > > SgtChains > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
