I posted it without any opinion just as a data point. No need for the personal attack.
If the feature ends up helping me classify spam.or ham accurately, maybe it's a good thing. I pay for plenty of intelligence feeds to do that. However, I have questions of adoption rate, impersonation concerns, anticompetitive concerns, and privacy concerns. This just sounds like a commercial tracking pixel but the devil is in the details. The pilot will shake things out more I imagine. On Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 01:29 Ted Mittelstaedt <t...@ipinc.net> wrote: > > Well Kevin I think that article is one of the biggest lying sacks of dog > dung I have ever read. > > The ONLY reason they are doing this is pure greed. The email scanning > services charge extra for applying "branding" and the amounts are > unreal, and I happen to have a customer going through the RDP process > for a new firewall mail scanner and every last dirty dog sales guy > has been badgering them "do you want Branding, huh, huh, huh," and > every one of them charges am EXTRA fee per message and user for this > "service" > > It's disgusting. It's just greed disguised as "we are making things > safe for YOUUU" They are trying to push a "standard" into email that > they are hoping to make so that 99% of the companies that do it, have > to pay someone a fee-per-message-per-month. > > Go ahead and support it if you want but please don't pretend it's > purpose is to make things safer. It's purpose is to enrich someone's > pockets. > > Ted > > On 7/22/2020 8:07 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > There's been some sporadic discussion from BIMI for a few years. Just > > caught this article: > > > https://venturebeat.com/2020/07/21/google-launches-bimi-pilot-to-bring-verified-brand-logos-to-gmail/ > > > > Regards, > > > > KAM > > >
