Surprisingly, most of the Spam that makes it through these days is
from Gmail. I'm not sure if they gave up completely on fighting the
spammers that sign-up but I'm always increasing the score assigned to
Gmail originating e-mails because of this.
99% of them are SEO offers and whatnot, surely it can't be that hard
to block this type of outgoing message.
Scott
On Thursday, 11/07/2024 at 15:48 Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop wrote:
Am 11.07.24 um 21:20 schrieb John Levine via mailop:
It appears that Ralph Seichter via mailop [1] said:
Personally, I don't factor the price of domains into the block/pass
decisions,
You should. There is a very strong correlation between cheap and bad.
And there are very rational reasons for that:
* Keeping the spam volume from your customers low requires an active
abuse desk team which costs money.
* A truly effective handling of spamming customers includes
terminating their contracts if necessary, which cuts revenues.
* To be able to recognize bad apples early, you need to have some
sort of KYC policy, which on one hand costs money to implement, on the
other hand might deter not only the crooks who want to avoid being
traceable, but also ordinary customers with a desire for privacy.
Of course, there are counterexamples, providers which aren't cheap but
whose customers still emit a nasty amount of spam (maybe providing
bulletproof "pink contracts" to their bad customers), and
organizations run on volunteer and cooperative work which provide free
or cheap services to a restricted audience.
Overall, the association of a domain name or IP address with the
organizations providing them isn't unreasonable.
Cheers,
Hans-Martin
Links:
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