Re: All RCVD_IN_VALIDITY rules being applied to every email.

2024-11-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
month that Scott Weiss started Bonded Sender). All we ask is that if you are going to do a ton of querying, that you transfer the zone to a local copy instead of querying directly. Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Legislative Advisor Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPA

Re: ATTENTION: DNSWL to be disabled by default.

2024-09-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
fact that we charge a relatively small monthly sum to the senders makes firing them pretty painless. Thus it has always been - best practices over money *always* - we can take this stand because we are, always have been, and always will be, privately held, and the buck stops with me). Anne -- Ann

Re: Lots of FN because of VALIDITY* rules

2024-06-14 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
B tests) not doing the right thing! Thank you, Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Internet Law & Policy Attorney CEO Institute for Social Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law) Creator of the term 'deliverability

Re: OT - Hotmail/Outlook.com marking most of our email as Junk

2022-02-19 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
ubject line of the test email. Anne --- Outsource your email deliverability headaches to us, and get to the inbox, guaranteed! www.GetToTheInbox.com Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. CEO Get to the Inbox by SuretyMail Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law) Au

Re: netflix phishing emails forwarded via sendgrid

2021-02-02 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Does anyone have a copy of the netflix phishing that they could forward to me at amitch...@isipp.com, including the body of it? TIA! Anne > On Feb 2, 2021, at 1:04 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > > On 2021-02-02 03:25, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >> Since it's already hitting 8.9, why do more? > > t

Re: Technically not spam

2020-05-29 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
rule-provision-under-can-spam-act The more in-depth version is here: https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/federal_register_notices/definitions-and-implementation-under-can-spam-act-16-cfr-part-316/080521canspamact.pdf Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Dean of Cyberlaw & Cybersecur

Re: Technically not spam

2020-05-29 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
mailings, each of which you have to > seek out individually) is … well, not going to work with many users, > especially the less technical. Not to mention that it is a violation of Federal law. Federal law requires a "one-step" unsubscribe method. Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.

Re: who is IADB and why does this spam get a -3.8 score?

2019-08-08 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
The offending sender has been terminated by the ESP. > On Aug 7, 2019, at 3:06 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. > wrote: > > Hi David! > > We are the IADB, and if you are getting spam from an accredited IP address, > we definitely want to know about it. The reason that em

Re: who is IADB and why does this spam get a -3.8 score?

2019-08-07 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Hi David! We are the IADB, and if you are getting spam from an accredited IP address, we definitely want to know about it. The reason that email from that IP gets that score is because it is supposed to be 100% opt-in - clearly if you didn't opt in, then it's not - and so we will take the resp

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-25 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> > I don't want to weigh in on the perceived worth of your signature, but > are you aware of the signature convention that has been around for > decades? It is mentioned in RFC 3676 and many other places: > > There is a long-standing convention in Usenet news which also commonly > appears i

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-25 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> On Nov 24, 2018, at 4:25 PM, @lbutlr wrote: > > This is a very excessive signature block. I’m glad your proud of your resume, > but inflicting itnon a mailing list with every post is a bit much. It's not a matter of pride, and I generally don't disagree with you...however when discussing

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> On Nov 21, 2018, at 12:03 PM, Bill Cole > wrote: > > On 21 Nov 2018, at 13:03, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote: > >> Except for the private right of action provided in GDPR, and small claims >> court in the U.S. > > Are you saying an EU law can create an ac

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
tty damned gutsy. It will almost certainly be sorted out through lawsuits, and that will definitely be popcorn time. > On Nov 21, 2018, at 11:03 AM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. > wrote: > > > >> On Nov 21, 2018, at 8:48 AM, Bill Cole >> wrote: >> >> T

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> On Nov 21, 2018, at 8:48 AM, Bill Cole > wrote: > > There is no reason for anyone without a commercial presence in the EU or CH > to be concerned with GDPR. Except for the private right of action provided in GDPR, and small claims court in the U.S. And, for entities that spam enough p

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> The email address is an address, part of your personally identifiable data. > If an identifiable entity in the US sends mass mail to European addresses, > then they must have a representative in Europe and comply with the GDPR. I somehow missed that John is in the U.K., and actually re-rea

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> > Gents, Ahem. ;-) > > I somehow became subscribed to a list, political in nature, in whose mail I > have no interest. This is a legitimate AFAIK, US organization. > > Thus far, several uses of their unsubscribe link had not provided relief. > Direct email to the founder and ope

Re: Bayes overtraining

2018-08-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> >>> There are spams hitting negative scoring rules e.g. MAILING_LIST_MULTI, >>> RCVD_IN_RP_*, RCVD_IN_IADB_* and they are constantly trained as ham. Just a reminder, if you ever receive spam which is tagged as RCVD_IN_IADB (or *any* flavour of IADB tag) *please* forward it to me personal

Re: IADB whitelist - again

2018-03-01 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, Sebastian Arcus wrote: > >> I know I have brought up this issue on this list before, and sorry for the >> persistence, but having 7 different rules adding scores for the IADB >> whitelist still seems either ridiculous, or outright suspect: >> >> -0.2 RCVD_IN_IADB_RDN

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > I know the definition of spam is very subjective and dependent on your > particular the mail flow along with the expectations of the recipients. > Back when I was in-house counsel at MAPS, Paul (Vixie) and I came up with this definition of spam: “An electronic message is “spam” IF: (1)

Re: Tone of emails with subject: 'hey'

2018-02-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
Ironically, Gmail's spam filters have filtered every single one of the emails in this thread. :-\ Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Legislative Consultant CEO/President, Institute for Social Internet Public Policy L

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > My sense is that ESPs engage ISIPP thinking they are getting an advocate and > ambassador to mailbox providers when in fact they get a teacher/evangelist > for sender best practices. ITYM 'schooled in best practices. ;-) ;-) Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > What do you call *verified* opt-in (what the marketers call "double opt-in"), > where the recipient needs to comfirm that they gave permission for contact > via that email address before receiving any content, in order to avoid > unwanted third-party subscriptions? Confirmed opt-in, whi

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > 'magically' re-subscribe after a while, or simply get around rules by > creating a new list and re-subscribing everybody who unsubscribed. Just so you know, that behavior is specifically made illegal by CAN-SPAM. And Sebastian, I see that you are in the UK, which already has tighter law

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
Bill, thank you for this excellent explanation, and for the kind words! For those of you who don't know us, or me, I came out of MAPS; I was in-house counsel for MAPS during the first rash of lawsuits against MAPS brought by spammers. To say that I am rabidly anti-spam would be an understateme

Response from ISIPP (was Re: ISIPP - Re: bb.barracudacentral.org)

2017-11-15 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
Hi Guys! This thread was only just brought to our attention, and the thread is now several levels deep and a bit old, so if you can help me out with letting me know what the outstanding issues are, I'd really appreciate it. As best as I can tell from reading through the thread online, there a

MailChimp Update (Was Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware)

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
MailChimp has said that they believe that they have terminated all accounts that were responsible for this. BUT, they say, this is a group that keeps cropping up (think whack-a-mole), so to please report any more of these that anyone receives. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Author: S

Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
Sorry for top-posting, but just to let folks know, our contact has just let me know that he is on this; I'll report back with anything I hear that I can share. Anne > > Hi, > >>> Another email from a whitelisted mailchimp address that contains malware. >>> >>> https://pastebin.com/ay83iWjC >

Re: Off-topic, was: [Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware]

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > On Friday 20 October 2017 at 19:29:31, Anne P. Mitchell Esq. wrote: > >> Anne P. Mitchell, >> Attorney at Law > > I'm intrigued as to what the "Esq." in your From address indicates? > > Please feel free to reply offlist if appropriate

Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > Hi, > > Another email from a whitelisted mailchimp address that contains malware. > > https://pastebin.com/ay83iWjC > > It's also not tagged when not whitelisted, and I hoped someone had > some ideas on what further can be done to block it. > > Complicating things, it's in Italian. > >

Re: ISIPP - Re: bb.barracudacentral.org

2017-09-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
On 9/16/2017 4:36 PM, Chris wrote: > I'm also seeing issues with ISIPP which is in 20_dnsbl_tests.cf. I've > attached the message I sent them as well as their reply. Another issue I > noticed with ISIPP is Sep 16 12:09:38 localhost named[1284]: host unreachable > resolving 'ns1.ns.isipp.co