On 2018-08-29 11:55, David Hofstee wrote:
Just curious and to ensure I understand correctly:
You see email from well-behaving businesses (asking for the opt-in in a
correct way, sending good newsletters et al, having good offline
reputation) being flagged continuously as spam because people put in
other peoples email addresses? In larger numbers (i.e. not one-offs)?
As a one off example which is not necessarily relevant to any degree of
scale, I own my firstname.lastname[at]gmail.com. I don't give it out or
use it in any meaningful way, but I get hundreds to thousands of spam
messages a month which appear to be legitimate companies sending what
they likely consider to be wanted email.
I get confirmations of orders placed, personal messages, contact from
realtors with a "Just following up on your visit a few days ago" that
are all in the same region followed by contact from a mortgage broker
with documents attached for one of the properties.
In one case I called a doctor's office and asked them to remove my
address, they did and were very apologetic, then a couple weeks later
they re-added my address. Apparently that Dave Warren gave them my
address *again* and asked to be set up for email confirmations.
I get hotel confirmations, resumes after conferences or events, etc.
Confirmations of restaurant bookings, invites to Hollywood events and
movie screenings (one Dave Warren is involved in the industry and
constantly hands out my address instead of his own -- I know his name,
address, phone number, and at least half the digits of his primary
credit card).
This is ignoring the spam-spam, just the stuff that looks like the
result of typos.
100% of it gets the "This is spam" button, with the exception of address
confirmations that don't result in an ongoing stream of garbage.
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