Yep, I don't disagree with *anything* you've said. But examples from 'not me' are likely to be more compelling than 'just me telling them why it's a bad idea'.
Anne > 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. > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
