Re: [mailop] [E] Re: AT Block

2024-07-09 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> On Jul 9, 2024, at 2:11 PM, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: > > On 2024-07-09 at 13:53:47 UTC-0400 (Tue, 9 Jul 2024 11:53:47 -0600) > Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop > is rumored to have said: > >> Receivers don't block email from new IPs by default; they block t

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: AT Block

2024-07-09 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
lse). What is the nature of the email which was being sent through those IP addresses? Instead of grumbling, if you can give us information, perhaps someone here can help you. Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Legislative Advisor CEO Institute for Social Internet Pub

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: AT Block

2024-07-08 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
right as a result of that. So, in fact, they were the only lawsuit that didn't go to trial. Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Legislative Advisor CEO Institute for Social Internet Public Policy Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: AT Block

2024-07-08 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
he U.S. and has been for more than 20 years. In fact "my server, my rules" is enshrined in our Federal law (of course not so succinctly or in nearly as straightforward a manner). Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Legislative Advisor CEO Institute for So

Re: [mailop] salesforce phishing emails

2024-06-13 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> On Jun 12, 2024, at 11:40 PM, Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop > wrote: > > Am 12.06.24 um 18:04 schrieb Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop: >> >> >> I've also always found abuse@ to be responsive there, and it's peopled by a >> real person

Re: [mailop] salesforce phishing emails

2024-06-12 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
d, which I'm > inclined to believe. I've also always found abuse@ to be responsive there, and it's peopled by a real person, who gives real responses (at least that was the case as recently as 12/21/23. Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Internet Law & Policy Attorney CEO Institut

[mailop] Information About the Issue with Delivering to Gmail from Microsoft

2024-06-04 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
hat the email you send goes to the inbox, not the junk folder. Learn more at gettotheinbox.com Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney CEO Get to the Inbox by ISIPP SuretyMail Creator of the term 'deliverability' and co-founder of the deliverability industry Author: Section 6 of

Re: [mailop] Ongoing issue with sending emails to Gmail / Google hosted domains from our MS 365 Tenant

2024-05-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
n at least 3x a week. (So yeah, it could be the Microsoft domain about which Gmail is complaining but that somehow seems even less likely than the other theory.) Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Internet Law & Policy Attorney CEO Get to the Inbox by SuretyMail Author: Section 6 of

Re: [mailop] Anyone from Microsoft?

2024-03-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Internet Law & Policy Attorney CEO ISIPP SuretyMail Sender Certification Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law) Author: The Email Deliverability Handbook Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange Dean Emeritus, Cyber

Re: [mailop] One click unsubscribe in mailing list messages

2024-02-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
e that turned on deciding what this language meant, I could argue either side, and convincingly so, I believe. Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney CEO Institute for Social Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email ma

Re: [mailop] One click unsubscribe in mailing list messages

2024-02-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
removing the visible, in the body, unsub link that people are used to looking for, and relying _only_ on the header-embedded unsub. And that is more likely from where the litigation will come. Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney CEO Institute for Social Internet Publ

Re: [mailop] One click unsubscribe in mailing list messages

2024-02-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
/www.isipp.com/a-one-step-unsubscribe-is-required-by-federal-law/ Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email 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

Re: [mailop] What am I supposed to do with abuse complaints on legit mail?

2022-01-13 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> On Jan 12, 2022, at 11:30 PM, Jay Hennigan via mailop > wrote: > > A single acknowledgement of a successful unsubscribe is fine, but don't make > them jump through another flaming hoop. It's also a violation of Federal law, which requires a "one-step unsubscribe method". Anne -- Anne

Re: [mailop] Ethics Complaint to Princeton (was: Bizarre GDPR/CCPA scam spam from Princeton researchers)

2021-12-22 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
P.S. These two notes from Jonathan Mayer are appended to the https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/ site; the newest is from yesterday. Note from Jonathan Mayer, the Principal Investigator (Saturday, December 18 @ 11:30pm) Hi, my name is Jonathan Mayer. I’m the Principal Investigator for

Re: [mailop] Ethics Complaint to Princeton (was: Bizarre GDPR/CCPA scam spam from Princeton researchers)

2021-12-22 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> > Yes they do communicate but they are now sugesting to spam everybody once > more with some explanation. ... And here is that follow-up spam (below), note that the novatormail.ru is the domain from which our client originally received the email, obviously the domain will change depending

Re: [mailop] Ethics Complaint to Princeton (was: Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton)

2021-12-17 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
Yuval this is awesome, and an awesome result! FWIW, this is what I told Jonathan (after two previous replies/re-replies), yesterday morning, in part - cc:ed to the chair of the compsci department, and the Princeton legal department: He wrote: > Thank you for reaching out about our research on

Re: [mailop] Ethics Complaint to Princeton (was: Privacy research spam apparently from a grad student at Princeton)

2021-12-16 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
As a follow up, to my letter, I received the following: > Thank you for reaching out about our research on the European Union General > Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act > (CCPA). A component of the study involves requesting information from > websites

[mailop] New "What is your GDPR" or "What is your CCPA" policy email scam?

2021-12-12 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
On Friday, we received the following email, purporting to be asking about GDPR policies for our property The Internet Patrol: From: tomhar...@yosemitemail.com: Subject: Questions About GDPR Data Access Process for theinternetpatrol.com To Whom It May Concern: My name is Tom Harris, and I am a

Re: [mailop] WhatCounts/Costco silliness

2021-10-27 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
Here is what CAN-SPAM requires, following the updated rules issued by the FTC in May of 2008; this is the "single step" requirement: § 316.5 Prohibition on charging a fee or imposing other requirements on recipients who wish to opt out. Neither a sender nor any person acting on behalf of a

[mailop] SendX?

2021-10-14 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
We have someone asking us for info on SendX, their reputation, etc., and honestly we have never heard of them; while ordinarily we would consider that in and of itself as a data point, I'm wondering if anybody has any experience with them? Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. CEO ISIPP SuretyMail

Re: [mailop] Got any users in Texas? Better turn off your spam filters by Dec 2

2021-09-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> On Sep 23, 2021, at 9:08 PM, John Levine via mailop wrote: > > It appears that Jarland Donnell via mailop said: >>> * “the provider has a good faith, reasonable belief that the message >>> contains malicious computer code, obscene material, material depicting >>> sexual conduct, or material

Re: [mailop] Xfinity / Comcast / rsys5.com

2021-09-15 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> On Sep 15, 2021, at 12:55 AM, Daniele Nicolodi via mailop > wrote: > > I understand that industry back practice recommends to have > "unsubscribe" links in promotional bulk messages. Shouldn't these links > direct to some form that effectively allows to remove the recipient > address from

[mailop] MailChimp to be Acquired by Intuit

2021-09-13 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
So this is apparently happening: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Ben Chestnut, Mailchimp > > Subject: Big News from Mailchimp: We're Planning to be Acquired by Intuit > Date: September 13, 2021 at 1:56:01 PM PDT > Reply-To: Ben Chestnut, Mailchimp

[mailop] Recommendation for inbox provider?

2021-09-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
. Surely there must be others out there? Anybody have one they recommend? Bonus if they help with authentication setup because she is ..um...tech challenged. Thanks! Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Author: Section 6 of the Federal Email Marketing Law (CAN-SPAM) Board of Directors, Denver Internet

Re: [mailop] Anyone seen this "email warmup" pattern?

2021-08-28 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
MailShake", which gives the user an ESP-like interface, but then sends out the bulk email through the *user's* Gmail account, one at a time (and with no unsubscribe link, to boot). It's disgusting. Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Author: Section 6 of the Federal Email Marketing Law (

Re: [mailop] So uh... Zoom/Sendgrid... How's that webinar spam investigation coming?

2021-08-05 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
uot; Mitchell -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Dean of Cyberlaw and Cyber Security, Lincoln Law School Author: Section 6* of the Federal Email Marketing Law (CAN-SPAM) *Why yes, I *did* have a certain unrepentant coffee entity in mind when I wrote the vendor liability section of C

Re: [mailop] Anybody know Anthony Mitchell or Inboxsys?

2021-05-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
it's people looking for intel to use for nefarious purposes. I've also been provided with an intro through LinkedIn from another mutual contact. Thank you again! Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. CEO ISIPP SuretyMail Dean of Cyberlaw and Cyber Security, Lincoln Law School Author: Section 6 o

[mailop] Anybody know Anthony Mitchell or Inboxsys?

2021-05-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
that they only spun up the service within the past 6 months. Does anybody have any insight into Mr. Mitchell (obviously no relation) and/or his inboxsys.com? Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. CEO ISIPP SuretyMail Dean of Cyberlaw and Cyber Security, Lincoln Law School Author: Section 6 of the Federal

Re: [mailop] [EXTERNAL] Re: Registered @ Microsoft JMRP - blacklisted without feedback received

2021-05-11 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> On May 11, 2021, at 11:45 AM, André Peters via mailop > wrote: > > because you MS guys are so clever, I'd like to suggest that personal attacks, *especially* on such a trusted, respected member of the community - not to mention one who is one of the good guys, is not only unwarranted,

[mailop] EmailDeliverablityReport.com?

2021-04-19 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
Does anybody know who is behind EmailDeliverabilityReport.com? I note it's only about a year old, and I want to know about the trustworthiness/reliability of what they are putting out - for example they are ranking ESPs based on deliverability... their data and info may be completely accurate

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: Some Days I think that Gmail isn't even trying to stop outbound spam..

2021-02-05 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 9:18 AM Thomas Walter via mailop > wrote: > > You can not trust users to identify spam. Sure you can. You can trust them to identify what *they* consider to be spam. It just doesn't jive with what we consider to be spam. That is, always has been, and always will

Re: [mailop] scam prevention

2020-12-08 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> Background: > > Some people at work fell for a scam email where the From line was > > From: =?UTF-8?Q?Darren_Smith=C2=A0?= We have been beating this drum for ages, most recently here:

Re: [mailop] Suddenlink Contact

2020-11-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> Is there anyone with Suddenlink on this list, or does anyone have any > contacts with them, if so please contact me off list. It seems that emails > sent to their postmaster account bounce. Having *just* gone 'round with them on this for a client, and (after many emails and phone calls)

Re: [mailop] [External] sendgrid.net

2020-09-25 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> I've been very saddened. Sendgrid was a reputable ESP that has fallen > from grace. About 6-7 months ago, we started seeing pretty large > amounts of spam from them. Exactly - this tracks with the timeline when a) they ceased being certified by us, b) certain key people who *had* been

Re: [mailop] This is..Concerning: DatabaseUSA Wins Case Against The Spamhaus Project

2020-08-07 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
>> >> It was Mr. Charles Benn who, according to the service of process affidavit, >> was authorized to receive process on their behalf. > > It won't surprise you to learn that we have absolutely no clue who "Charles > Benn" is, literally never heard of the guy. Steve, my working theory is

Re: [mailop] This is..Concerning: DatabaseUSA Wins Case Against The Spamhaus Project

2020-08-04 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> Another relevant piece of data. The organization that was named in the suit > and has received a permanent injunction against it has been voluntarily > dissolved and struck off the UK registry of companies. > > https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05303831 > > There is no one

Re: [mailop] This is..Concerning: DatabaseUSA Wins Case Against The Spamhaus Project

2020-08-03 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
>> From the judgement: >> "The plaintiff has shown that it has complied with the Hague Convention and >> personally served a representative authorized to accept service of process >> in London." > > Rule #1 of spam: Spammers lie. Absolutely. However, a court isn't going to take a party's

Re: [mailop] This is..Concerning: DatabaseUSA Wins Case Against The Spamhaus Project

2020-08-03 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
>> Did you not read what I quoted from the Spamhaus website? They are based >> in Switzerland and Andorra, not the UK. My assumption is that there is >> basically no chance of any U.S. ruling being enforced in either of these >> two countries, unless it is related to a serious crime. I should

Re: [mailop] This is..Concerning: DatabaseUSA Wins Case Against The Spamhaus Project

2020-08-03 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> Did you not read what I quoted from the Spamhaus website? They are based > in Switzerland and Andorra, not the UK. My assumption is that there is > basically no chance of any U.S. ruling being enforced in either of these > two countries, unless it is related to a serious crime. From the

Re: [mailop] This is..Concerning: DatabaseUSA Wins Case Against The Spamhaus Project

2020-08-03 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> default judgment, Spamhaus is not a US organization or wasn't properly served > or whatever. Right...the thing is that a default judgement is still a judgement. And because they are in the UK doesn't mean that it can't be enforced against them.. in the UK. Here are two good articles

Re: [mailop] This is..Concerning: DatabaseUSA Wins Case Against The Spamhaus Project

2020-08-03 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
given 30 days to determine and account for monetary damages and file that with the court. Anne > On Aug 3, 2020, at 4:46 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. > wrote: > > This is disturbing, although I don't know any of the back story. Is there > anything of which anybody is aware tha

[mailop] This is..Concerning: DatabaseUSA Wins Case Against The Spamhaus Project

2020-08-03 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
This is disturbing, although I don't know any of the back story. Is there anything of which anybody is aware that would somehow change how concerning this is? -- DatabaseUSA Wins Case Against The Spamhaus Project DatabaseUSA, a provider of data and email marketing services, has won a victory

Re: [mailop] Google and Spam detection

2020-07-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
Also, starting in this past week, Google (must have) changed their spam-detecting algorithm, as we are seeing that suddenly fully 50% of any day's load in the spam folder are false positives (i.e. has actually been legitimate email, even email that has a months - or even years - long history of

[mailop] SendInBlue Contact?

2020-07-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
Does anyone have a contact at Send in Blue? Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law. Dean of Cyberlaw & Cybersecurity, Lincoln Law School CEO, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification Advisor, Governor's Innovation Response Team Task Force Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the

Re: [mailop] Urgently need contact at Facebook of Instagram and also Omegle

2020-05-03 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
e platforms you mentioned > have abuse forms for that kind of reports, and it will be much more efficient > than passing thru a mailing list related to email industry. > > Le dim. 3 mai 2020 à 00:23, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop > a écrit : > There is a woman

[mailop] Also going on on TikTok (Re: Urgently need contact at Facebook of Instagram and also Omegle)

2020-05-02 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> On May 2, 2020, at 4:11 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. > wrote: > > There is a woman torturing animals on Omegle, she is advertising it on her > Instagram account. Need to get this in front of the right people to have her > traced and shut down. > > Please let me

[mailop] Urgently need contact at Facebook of Instagram and also Omegle

2020-05-02 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
There is a woman torturing animals on Omegle, she is advertising it on her Instagram account. Need to get this in front of the right people to have her traced and shut down. Please let me know if you can provide a contact for either org. Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Dean of

[mailop] Offer for Mailop *Only*: Waiving Application Fee for Email Reputation Certification

2020-03-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
All, As more and more businesses are having to shut down their offices, and rely nearly completely on doing business online, making sure that business email gets to the inbox is becoming more important than ever to these businesses. While we of course are also a business, we don't want to

Re: [mailop] Any idea who wrote 'Spam Lawsuits: What's the Worst that Can Happen?' ?

2020-02-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
Thank you, everyone, for helping solve this mystery! The document actually does have attribution in the Slideshare version (what I had found was a plain PDF file, with no attribution). Thank you again! Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Dean of Cyber Law & Cyber Security, Lincoln Law

[mailop] Any idea who wrote 'Spam Lawsuits: What's the Worst that Can Happen?' ?

2020-02-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
I came across a pdf titled Spam Lawsuits: What's the Worst that Can Happen? ...no author, no sponsoring org (although I suspect a connection with MailChimp owing to a line say saying "If you're a MailChimp customer" and another saying "As you're a MailChimp customer") You can see it here:

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK] whose address, was Approach to dealing with List Washing services, industry feedback..

2020-01-23 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> I can't recall the exact quote but a key rule is basically this; > > "Spam is whatever my users say it is." And, delightfully, even CAN-SPAM says (essentially) that spam is whatever ISPs say it is. Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law, Dean of Cyberlaw, Lincoln Law School of San

Re: [mailop] [FEEDBACK] whose address, was Approach to dealing with List Washing services, industry feedback..

2020-01-23 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
While most of the misdirected email I get is just a nuisance, just last week a lawyer at a law firm in California, with whom I have no connection, emailed documents in a case, with which I have no connection, to opposing counsel, with whom I have no connection (are you a detecting a theme

Re: [mailop] A Facebook curiosity: lots of people suddenly have accounts at honet.com?

2020-01-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> Nadine, is that you? Please to provide a C warning next time (yes, I audibly snorted, loudly enough for my other half to hear it and ask what I was laughing at). Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law, Dean of Cyberlaw, Lincoln Law School of San Jose CEO/President, SuretyMail Email

Re: [mailop] Reasons to add plain text alternative to email?

2019-12-09 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
on customers to email us *only* in plain text (and there has never been any pushback, again, FWIW). Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Esq., Dean of Cyberlaw, Lincoln Law School CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Legislat

Re: [mailop] Mailop made Hacker News

2019-10-28 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> > And the comments on Brandon about him being helpful and respectful are well > deserved. Indeed they are! This is also a reminder, however, that nothing said here is confidential, and that something you say here may end up repeated (and attributed) where you don't want it to be

Re: [mailop] Certified Senders Alliance

2019-10-03 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> We were certified by ISIPP (as an ESP) many years ago, and I don't remember > going through an extensive check process for that. You did. :-) However it was all in the background, based on your responses to your application. > As we didn't see any improvement in the deliverability, we

Re: [mailop] [ext] Re: Return Path / Sender Score

2019-09-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> On Sep 6, 2019, at 8:01 AM, Ewald Kessler | Webpower via mailop > wrote: > > Not short, but certainly sweet: > > I don't care what method people devise to make sure that people don't get > added to a mailing list without their consent, so long as it actually works. > I don't care if they

Re: [mailop] mailop Digest, Vol 142, Issue 35

2019-08-25 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> On Aug 24, 2019, at 7:03 PM, Al Iverson via mailop wrote: > > Wait. There was spam before Anne Mitchell defined it for the rest of us? > Actually it was Paul Vixie who defined it - then we worked together to refine the wording and put it up on the MAPS website. Anne --- Anne P.

Re: [mailop] [ext] Re: Return Path / Sender Score

2019-08-23 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> Spam being unsolicited broadcast email, I would say that if you agree to > receive it, it cannot be spam. This definition has held up well over the > twenty-five years I've been involved in the industry. Indeed, and it was formalized in item (2) in the Vixie/Mitchell defintion of spam, which

[mailop] Issue with Mailop 'From' header

2019-08-14 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
Something has changed in the past several weeks so that email from Mailop now comes: From: To: mailop@mailop.org Whereas before the change the email would come: From: Anne Mitchell To: mailop@mailop.org ..making triage, etc., of reading Mailop mail more onerous now, as one has to actually

Re: [mailop] Lawsuit to watch: Tulsi v. Google

2019-07-27 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> Also, doesn't CAN-SPAM only apply to senders? No, there is a little-known (apparently) clause in CAN-SPAM that specifically states that ISPs can make any delivery decision that they want to, for any reason or no reason whatsoever. It’s nearly (but not quite) the codification of “their

[mailop] Lawsuit to watch: Tulsi v. Google

2019-07-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
While at first blush the big news about this lawsuit is that Google is being sued for suppressing presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard's campaign's ads, there is also a piece of the lawsuit where they are suing Google because (they claim) a disproportionate number of her campaign's email was

Re: [mailop] How to identify source of email sent via Google?

2019-07-19 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> On Jul 19, 2019, at 12:30 AM, Angelo Giuffrida via mailop > wrote: > > I find it rich that Michael is in here throwing stones... can't exactly throw > stones when you live in a glass house there big Mikey! I find it rich that you would disparage Michael like this, especially when, to the

Re: [mailop] Crazy Sender-score value of 0 instead of 96-98

2019-07-18 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
Relatedly, do we have any idea what is going to happen with SenderScore now that they have been acquired by Validity, and 200 RP employees have been laid off? Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, Institute for Social Internet Public Policy Dean of Cybersecurity & Cyberlaw,

[mailop] About to blacklist Marketo - has anyone received non-spam from them?

2019-05-28 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
I'm pretty much giving up on Marketo - and about to BL them and also recommend to others that they do so - as I have *never* received anything other than spam from them, and while they may still have a few good people there, it doesn't seem to make a blind bit of difference overall. Does

[mailop] DigitalOcean responds to DMCA takedown (was re: DigitalOcean calling for social media s* storm? (Re: Why is it so hard to have takedown's performed..))

2019-05-13 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
Just an update on our own issue - which was that DigitalOcean is hosting privacy-formula.com, which is doing wholesale rip-off of content from places like Sophos, Washington Times, Medium, NY Times, etc... and one of our publications (The Internet Patrol). They are basically grabbing the RSS

Re: [mailop] DigitalOcean calling for social media s* storm? (Re: Why is it so hard to have takedown's performed..)

2019-04-29 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop
> I Twittered to @digitalocean about the lack of responsiveness from their > abuse desk. > > They promptly replied via Twitter: > > "We apologise for the trouble. Our security & operation team is already > looking into it." > > As I still had a case open with them, I appended your nice list of

Re: [mailop] Gmail Contact?

2019-04-16 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> On Apr 16, 2019, at 10:02 AM, Brandon Long via mailop > wrote: > > followed by "don't be too similar to the bad guys" THIS!!! ^^^ SO much this!! I would say that "trying to be 'clever' and 'fix' things themselves, making themselves look like bad guys in the process" is the

Re: [mailop] charter.net contact

2019-03-15 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Hi Marc, We can probably help you with that if you haven't already found a contact. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification and Inbox Delivery Assistance GDPR, CCPA (CA) & CCDPA (CO) Compliance Consulting http://www.SuretyMail.com/

[mailop] Webroot contact?

2019-03-01 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Is there anyone here from Webroot? All of the contacts I have are returning 'not found'. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law GDPR, CCPA (CA) & CCDPA (CO) Compliance Consultant Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Legislative Consultant CEO/President,

Re: [mailop] Anyone from Mandrill/Mailchimp here?

2019-02-27 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Paul, please pass the info to us offlist and we'll get it in front of the right person ASAP. Anne *Typed with 1.5 eyes as I'm recuperating from a torn retina, so apologies for any typos. > On Feb 27, 2019, at 10:47 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > > We've just received what I'm 99% sure is a

Re: [mailop] iCloud abuse

2019-02-04 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Daniel - please see email that I have sent you offlist. Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification and Inbox Delivery Assistance GDPR, CCPA (CA) & CCDPA (CO) Compliance Consulting http://www.SuretyMail.com/ http://www.SuretyMail.eu/

Re: [mailop] Comcast Contact

2019-01-30 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> Is anyone from Comcast on this list or does anyone have a good contact for > email admins there? Looking to troubleshoot end users messages that are > being delivered to their MTAs but never arrive in the recipients’ mailboxes. > Rob, if you reply to me off-list (amitch...@isipp.com)

Re: [mailop] Contact at txt.att.net?

2019-01-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> On Jan 20, 2019, at 5:25 AM, Josiah Ritchie > wrote: > > We're trying to deal with what appears to be new rate limiting with domains > handled at txt.att.net. I'd really appreciate a contact who may be able to > help us get mail flowing again. > We may not be able to put you in touch

Re: [mailop] If you're from Cox - check your SPF records

2019-01-11 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Cox has been notified and they are on it. :-) Happy Friday! Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification http://www.SuretyMail.com/ Certified Sender DNSBL here: iadb.isipp.com Info here: https://www.isipp.com/email-accreditation/for-isps/

Re: [mailop] If you're from Cox - check your SPF records

2019-01-10 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
David, may we share this with our Cox contact? Anne > On Jan 10, 2019, at 3:46 PM, David Carriger > wrote: > > If we have anyone from Cox on the list, I was doing some SPF lookups against > large mail providers and stumbled across this... > > "v=spf1

Re: [mailop] Campaign Monitor Spewing Their Own Spam Now

2019-01-10 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Hello, Carissa, Generally we are used to dealing with an individual - upon receipt of the first spam from your Faye Nagpigkit to a role account (!), on January 8, I wrote to your abuse@ asking for Heather to contact me (this is how we have always worked with you guys in in the past). I never

[mailop] Campaign Monitor Spewing Their Own Spam Now

2019-01-10 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Campaign Monitor is now spamming on their own behalf..and our original abuse contact there is unresponsive - in fact abuse@ is unresponsive..maybe gone...anybody have any reason why anything coming from Campaign Monitor's space shouldn't be rejected on sight? Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney

[mailop] Something VERY weird going on with BitBounce

2018-12-27 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
We just sent out a mailing to a list of several thousand subscribers - we have *never* (at least for the past several years) had a user respond with a BitBounce auto-demand for the 5 cents. We sent out a mailing just a few days ago and there were no users using BitBounce. We *only* use COI so

[mailop] Anybody know anybody at Target.com?

2018-12-13 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Target has a *serious* problem..as in... *no* unsubscribe option at all for the very generic marketing email I just received. And, they are doing their own mailing, from mail-target.com, so I can't even complain to their ESP. Anybody have a contact? Thanks in advance! Anne --- Anne P.

Re: [mailop] GoDaddy TakeDown requests

2018-12-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Ryan, Send me the info and we'll get it in front of the right person. Anne > On Dec 6, 2018, at 12:27 PM, Ryan Harris via mailop wrote: > > Hello, > > I sent a takedown request to ab...@godaddy.com, also filled out an abuse form > on a domain they are hosting which is phishing/malware. No

Re: [mailop] Pet Peeve of the day, legalese signatures

2018-11-29 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> On Nov 29, 2018, at 4:33 AM, Noel Butler wrote: > > On 29/11/2018 03:36, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote: > >> >>>>> This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged >>>>> information, therefore remains confidentia

Re: [mailop] Pet Peeve of the day, legalese signatures (was: Pet Peeve of the day, Bulk Notice Mailers from Do Not Reply.)

2018-11-28 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
>>> This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged >>> information, therefore remains confidential and subject to copyright >>> protected under international law. You may not disseminate, discuss, or >>> reveal, any part, to anyone, without the authors express written >>>

Re: [mailop] Godaddy Postmasters?

2018-11-15 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> are there any Godaddy postmasters on this list? If so could one contact me > offlist? We can put you in touch with someone...what is going on? Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification and Inbox Delivery Assistance GDPR, CCPA (CA) &

Re: [mailop] O365 discarding mail after User-Agent change

2018-10-31 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> On Oct 31, 2018, at 11:48 AM, Bill Cole > wrote: > > On 31 Oct 2018, at 12:53, Steve Dodd wrote: > >> The two recipient orgs here are actually a local govt department, and a >> state-funded charity. Would be interesting to see what a lawyer made of >> their "right" to randomly drop mail

Re: [mailop] Any Century Link email admins lurking on the list?

2018-10-17 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
We have someone at CenturyLink...can you give me a bit more for us to go on when reaching out to them? Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification and Inbox Delivery Assistance GDPR, CCPA (CA) & CCDPA (CO) Compliance Consultant GDPR, CCPA

[mailop] Monumetric - unabated spamming through Google / GTT

2018-09-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
This spammer is spamming through the Gmail api, and GTT is the last identifiable hop to get to their google-hosted site. This is the 4th spam to this role account that we've received in the space of a week - we have now reported this spammer three times to Google, GTT and Sucuri (they are

Re: [mailop] apple contact?

2018-09-12 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Dave, we have a contact at Apple, but can't share it - but if you want to forward me the questions offlist we can send them over and they may well contact you as a result. Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification and Inbox Delivery Assistance

Re: [mailop] Problem with the new Microsoft's support form

2018-07-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> Anyone else not getting response from the outlook's support request form > (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/supportrequestform/8ad563e3-288e-2a61-8122-3ba03d6b8d75) > > We recently verify that this forward for a new page with a different form. > > However all request through this form

Re: [mailop] Bitcoin password ransom email from user at outlook.com

2018-07-11 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Geoff, may I forward this to our contact at Microsoft? Dictated on my phone, apologies for any tupos. > On Jul 11, 2018, at 9:26 PM, Geoff Mulligan wrote: > > We received a password ransom email requesting payment via bitcoin from an > outlook.com user. > > Is there someone from outlook.com

Re: [mailop] Contact from ATT/BELLSOUTH

2018-07-02 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Marc, if you want to hmu offlist and give me the details, we can pass them on to our AT contacts. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification and Inbox Delivery Assistance GDPR Compliance Consultant GDPR Compliance Certification

Re: [mailop] Amazon contact

2018-06-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Melinda, if this is not (I have to emphasize that, *not*) an email delivery issue, but *is* some sort of network-to-network issue, I can probably put you in touch with someone. > > Hi > > Anyone from Amazon on the mailing list? Would you mind contacting me off > list? > > > Thanks >

Re: [mailop] GDPR and SMTP in general

2018-05-25 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> On May 25, 2018, at 4:40 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > >>> But, how it interacts with email, it all seems to get very horrible. I >>> suspect the *intention* is OK, but I'm struggling with the actual >>> regulations. >>> >> Whilst this specific article (written by Andrew

[mailop] Anyone from Chase or ZetaImpact/Delivery.net here (or have a contact there)?

2018-05-07 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
Chase is in gross violation of even our laxer U.S. anti-spam law - specifically they have *no* unsubscribe in their marketing email (pretty shocking). Their ESP is ZetaImpact/Delivery.net. Would love to hear from someone, or be put in touch, before I escalate. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney

Re: [mailop] GDPR and WHOIS PRIVACY

2018-05-03 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > Since GDPR has pushed for a public WHOIS to disappear (even though ICANN > seems to be resistant), how do those of you in the email world feel this will > affect those of us who believe in the best practice of having clients/users > turn off WHOIS Privacy on their domains? > > E.G we

Re: [mailop] Anyone from iWeb around? (And generally feel free to block/list the below)

2018-04-13 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
of spams and the ISP ignored your report for > many months ? > > No? Then... > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 2:41 PM, Anne P. Mitchell Esq. > <amitch...@isipp.com> wrote: >> Is there anyone from iWeb here? And generally, this spammer - and his many >> domains -

[mailop] Anyone from iWeb around? (And generally feel free to block/list the below)

2018-04-13 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
Is there anyone from iWeb here? And generally, this spammer - and his many domains - needs a lesson :-\ Anne > From: "Anne P. Mitchell Esq." <amitch...@isipp.com> > Subject: Spam and Violation of Law complaint > Date: April 13, 2018 at 12:39:26 PM MDT > To: ab...

[mailop] Email to rackspace.com bouncing?

2018-03-12 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
We just tried sending email to three different (known to be live a few weeks ago) Rackspace addresses, and all 3 bounced as 'recipient unknown'. Either they just had a massive purge of employees, or their email is borked. Anybody have any insight into this? Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney

Re: [mailop] Anyone from Gmail ?

2018-03-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > > In my experience with the banking industry, they think of their email as > something that their customers always want to read for sure. Unless you've > handled the "double opt-in" yourself, I would be skeptical about that. Look > for typoed email addresses as those are a telltale

Re: [mailop] Anyone on this list from SpamCop?

2018-02-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > Also URLs in mail headers, which is perhaps reasonable, except that ...many ESPs now put unsub URLs in the headers. 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

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