On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 2:06 PM Jay Hennigan via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote:
> On 9/12/22 10:23, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: > > On 9/12/22 5:13 AM, Thomas Walter via mailop wrote: > >> What bothers me most is that the oligopoly makes it impossible to > >> deliver emails to protect their users from spam, yet it is the biggest > >> source of it… > > > > Does anyone have any evidence that shows that the big players are the > > biggest source of spam /by/ /percentage/ of outgoing messages? > > There's plenty of evidence that the big players simply don't care about > the spam they originate, just that which they receive. > I think if that were true, the amount of spam coming out of them would be much higher. Unfortunately, even a 1% false-negative rate would still result in a large volume. I think there may also be a material difference in the types of spammers and spam that are sent from Gmail to small providers, much less to individual server owners. There's a lot of specialization among spammers, since what's needed to get passed specific filters at scale varies greatly, and is a constant battle, so different targets look very different in the methods... even if the peddled products or scams are often the same. Brandon
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