On 5/9/16 11:20 AM, Anne Mitchell wrote:
Without commenting on what I think of the 'service' personally, I know the
founders over at bounce.io, and with permission, I'd like to send this over to
them - while the service may be ripe for abuse, the people involved are pretty
white hat in their views, so I think they'd want to hear about this.
Ripe for abuse? It *IS* abuse.
Sender A sends to recipient B. Mail to B isn't deliverable for some
reason. Third-party bounce.io, with permission of (and possible payment
to?) B's ISP, intercepts the non-delivery notice and sends
advertisements to sender A without permission. How can this possibly be
construed as white-hat?
It's backscatter on steroids.
Their FAQ at betterbounces.net (bounce.io redirects there) claims that
they're just trying to send more human-readable bounce messages but need
advertising to pay for it. They also claim that one can opt out of the
advertisements but only on a domain-by-domain (or typo-by-typo) basis.
https://betterbounces.net/faqs
In fact, the bounce messages, while perhaps more human-readable, are far
less likely to ever be read by a human as the spam within them will
result in almost universal filtering once anti-spam vendors get savvy to
it.
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Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - j...@impulse.net
Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/
Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV
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