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| Infraviolet:
With PayPal's recent behaviour* it's not surprising to see them getting in to the email spamming game too. That's a company which is trying to drive itself out of business, the sooner it is gone the better. *they cut off the accounts of several free-speech and civil-liberties organisations in the UK, also attacked the personal accounts of the individuals who ran those organisations, and then sought, on a worldwide scale, to start stealing up to $2500 from any account even tnagentially associated with what PayPal decided to define as misinformation |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: EPAIII on May 25, 2023, 07:31:14 am ---E-mail programs, like Thunderbird, have filters that you can customize. I just let the spam come in and direct it to a trash can. --- End quote --- Exactly. I get maybe one misclassification every three months. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---99% of legit spam will have a functioning "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email. --- End quote --- Quick way to let spammers know there's a live person seeing their spam. I will hit the unsubscribe for known pukka companies but for any other it's a sure way to get more. As is allowing icons, buttons, images, etc to be displayed if they aren't already in the email data. I run a mail server which has pretty decent (but not foolproof) spam handling. Coupled with ad-hoc addresses which can be not just blocked but rejected when necessary, it's reasonably painless. In fact, some spam popping up shows that the entire communications path is still working, so it saves me having to fart around with periodic test emails. And since clever spammers tend to go directly for the secondary MX record (on the basis that the full spam protection lives on the primary MX and probably not the remote secondary forwarder) it tests that link for me too :) --- Quote ---to add to this my email service provider adds its own spam --- End quote --- If you're paying for the service that's definitely not on. |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: PlainName on May 26, 2023, 10:05:31 pm --- --- Quote ---99% of legit spam will have a functioning "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email. --- End quote --- Quick way to let spammers know there's a live person seeing their spam. I will hit the unsubscribe for known pukka companies but for any other it's a sure way to get more. As is allowing icons, buttons, images, etc to be displayed if they aren't already in the email data. --- End quote --- Yes. I set my email client to not fetch remote content unless I tell it to, thus avoiding the one-pixel image "web bugs" informing a spammer that their message has hit my eyeballs. I set my email client to not run javascript unless I tell it to. Legitimate email won't contain executables, and is untroubled by that. |
| thm_w:
--- Quote from: PlainName on May 26, 2023, 10:05:31 pm --- --- Quote ---99% of legit spam will have a functioning "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email. --- End quote --- Quick way to let spammers know there's a live person seeing their spam. I will hit the unsubscribe for known pukka companies but for any other it's a sure way to get more. As is allowing icons, buttons, images, etc to be displayed if they aren't already in the email data. --- End quote --- Yeah thats what I said, "legit spam", which is what the OP was referring to (software companies, ISPs, etc. things they signed up for originally). These companies usually won't risk a fine under our various laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003 https://help.klaviyo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406840113563 |
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