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

2021-02-11 Thread Dave Warren via mailop
On 2021-02-09 14:47, Chris via mailop wrote: On 2021-02-08 21:09, Dave Warren via mailop wrote: \ You could always turn on + addressing on M365... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipients-in-exchange-online/plus-addressing-in-exchange-online Admittedly it is fairly new, and opt-

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

2021-02-09 Thread Chris via mailop
On 2021-02-08 21:09, Dave Warren via mailop wrote: \ You could always turn on + addressing on M365... https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipients-in-exchange-online/plus-addressing-in-exchange-online Admittedly it is fairly new, and opt-in for reasons described on the link above, b

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

2021-02-08 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 8 Feb 2021, at 21:20, Dave Warren via mailop wrote: On 2021-02-08 16:14, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: [...] The "de-tagging" tactic that Al noted has existed, although I don't see much evidence of it in recent years. I think it may be that enough people who use tagged addresses give tagged

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

2021-02-08 Thread Dave Warren via mailop
On 2021-02-08 16:14, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: On 8 Feb 2021, at 17:03, Richard Bewley via mailop wrote: The critical feature in '+' tagging (and equivalents using other characters or patterns) is the ability to create aliases on-the-fly in a namespace that the user controls such that the m

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

2021-02-08 Thread Dave Warren via mailop
On 2021-02-08 15:03, Richard Bewley via mailop wrote: Only this weekend I was trying to help an old colleague with a migration from Gsuite to M365. The #1 complaint... was some of his minions were seemingly crippled by the lack of this function.. and I was thinking err aliases? Aliases?

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

2021-02-08 Thread Bill Cole via mailop
On 8 Feb 2021, at 17:03, Richard Bewley via mailop wrote: +1 to Al. (no pun intended for the '+'.) Only this weekend I was trying to help an old colleague with a migration from Gsuite to M365. The #1 complaint... was some of his minions were seemingly crippled by the lack of this function.. a

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

2021-02-08 Thread Richard Bewley via mailop
least I am not alone ;o) Richard -Original Message- From: Al Iverson Sent: 08 February 2021 17:46 To: mailop Subject: Re: [mailop] [E] Re: Some Days I think that Gmail isn't even trying to stop outbound spam.. I'm going to go wide (and unpopular) on this one and say that t

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

2021-02-08 Thread Al Iverson via mailop
I'm going to go wide (and unpopular) on this one and say that this is just another reason address plussing is crappy. Even the desired use case is very easily exploited. Bad guys can just strip the +tag and then you lose your visibility into where they got the address from. I guess if it's all you

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

2021-02-08 Thread Michael Peddemors via mailop
Didn't take Google spammers long to figure out using + addressing to try and get by spam filters.. or personal block lists.. Return-Path: From: "Bitcoin Trader" Judging by volume, I am sure that there are no sane rate limiters in place.. I would think that any use of a + address, usually

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

2021-02-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian via mailop
: Saturday, 6 February 2021 at 4:58 AM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] [E] Re: Some Days I think that Gmail isn't even trying to stop outbound spam.. Although I'm not terribly qualified to comment on Gmail's policies or design decisions, I thought I'd throw in a

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

2021-02-05 Thread Zack Aab via mailop
Although I'm not terribly qualified to comment on Gmail's policies or design decisions, I thought I'd throw in an anecdote about the "Report Spam" user experience: A random guy I talked to in a bar (it was a work trip, he asked why I was in town, etc) told me that he used the "Report Phishing" func

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2021-02-05 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop
Dnia 5.02.2021 o godz. 15:03:01 Grant Taylor via mailop pisze: > Changing the effort involved /might/ make a difference. E.g. have > delete be a one click action and report be a two click action vi a > confirmation (blocking modal) dialog box. > > Aside: The confirmation dialog box might also p

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

2021-02-05 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, Grant Taylor via mailop wrote: On 2/5/21 1:44 PM, Jay Hennigan via mailop wrote: I blame the big webmail providers for this. The "Delete" and "Junk" buttons are too similar in the UI. Simply changing "Junk" to "Report as spam" would help a lot. I don't think the label wil

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

2021-02-05 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:58 Jay Hennigan via mailop wrote: > Simply changing "Junk" to "Report as > spam" would help a lot. Unfortunately no, it would not. - Marcel ___ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop

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

2021-02-05 Thread Grant Taylor via mailop
On 2/5/21 1:44 PM, Jay Hennigan via mailop wrote: I blame the big webmail providers for this. The "Delete" and "Junk" buttons are too similar in the UI. Simply changing "Junk" to "Report as spam" would help a lot. I don't think the label will make much difference. Changing the effort involved

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

2021-02-05 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, Jay Hennigan via mailop wrote: On 2/5/21 09:41, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop wrote: 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 sp

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

2021-02-05 Thread Jay Hennigan via mailop
On 2/5/21 09:41, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. via mailop wrote: 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

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

2021-02-05 Thread Camille - Clean Mailbox via mailop
Also, a trusted user can be hacked and his account hijacked to send spam. > Le 5 févr. 2021 à 18:25, Marcel Becker via mailop a écrit > : > >  >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 9:18 AM Thomas Walter via mailop >> wrote: > >> >> You can not trust users to identify spam. > > This. A Thousand times

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 b

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

2021-02-05 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 9:18 AM Thomas Walter via mailop wrote: > > You can not trust users to identify spam. > This. A Thousand times this. A lot of us privileged with the insight into how mail technically works (or so) have difficulties grasping how real people use mail. And the available abuse

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

2021-02-05 Thread Thomas Walter via mailop
Hello, On 05.02.21 17:23, Andrew C Aitchison via mailop wrote: > Would it be useful to include a link in each email header, similar to > List-Unsubscribe: and relatives, but unique to each message sent, > so that recipients could give similar feedback to the sending service ? You can not trust us

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

2021-02-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky via mailop
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 08:32 -0800, Marcel Becker via mailop wrote: > > > I don't see ignoring spam to decrease expenses > > > > I see you actually didn’t read Brandon’s mail. > On the contrary. Each starts from the position of having gotten rich giving guns to children, and proceeds to discuss

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

2021-02-05 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 08:07 Michael Orlitzky via mailop wrote: > > Abuse reports for non-abuse also scale linearly. No. > I don't see ignoring spam to decrease expenses > I see you actually didn’t read Brandon’s mail. ___ mailop mailing list mailo

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

2021-02-05 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, Camille - Clean Mailbox via mailop wrote: Not an easy to determine what is a justified abuse report and what is not... On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 4:38 AM Michael Orlitzky via mailop < mailop@mailop.org> wrote: Pay more and more people to do it, until the number of unhandled a

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

2021-02-05 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
Inspired by the two exchanges quoted below: GMail (and presumably other ESPs wit web frontends and mail apps) has a "report spam" button for human's to ... report individual messages as spam, which I belive is fed back into the spam-classifier. Would it be useful to include a link in each emai

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

2021-02-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky via mailop
On Fri, 2021-02-05 at 07:26 -0800, Marcel Becker via mailop wrote: > > So you would gladly pay thousands of people to deal with abuse > reports > which are, well, not actually abuse reports. And a lot of them. I > wouldn't. > For the sake of the sanity of those people alone. > Abuse reports for

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

2021-02-05 Thread Camille - Clean Mailbox via mailop
Not an easy to determine what is a justified abuse report and what is not... > On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 4:38 AM Michael Orlitzky via mailop < > mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > >> Pay more and more people to do it, until the number of unhandled abuse >> reports at the end of the day is zero. It scales li

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

2021-02-05 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:58 PM Brandon Long via mailop wrote: > > We can always do better. When people start to complain, it probably means > we're missing something new or have let the low level things grow too much. > Thanks. > I really admire you. That you took that time to explain the actua

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

2021-02-05 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 4:38 AM Michael Orlitzky via mailop < mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > Pay more and more people to do it, until the number of unhandled abuse > reports at the end of the day is zero. It scales linearly. > So you would gladly pay thousands of people to deal with abuse reports w