On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 16:44, Laura Atkins <la...@wordtothewise.com> wrote:
> Gmail is one of the biggest sources of spam in my inbox right now. There’s > even spamware that lets companies harvest addresses from places like > linkedin, websites and the like and then send it out through google or G > suite. But Google is huge, so even though it’s a large amount of spam in > actual numbers it’s a small percentage of the mail Gmail sends every day. > Ouch - worth knowing, thanks. > With businesses the key is: does the mail support the business? It’s not > about solicited or even wanted by the individual enduser, it’s about is > this business relevant mail? Many folks, including myself think O365 has > been a big aggressive on this, but their customers seem happy with the new > filters. And, businesses can always block mail they don’t want, and outside > 3rd parties don’t really have standing to make them unblock it. "Their > server, their rules” is as true today as it was 20 years ago. > The two recipient orgs here are actually a local govt department, and a state-funded charity. Would be interesting to see what a lawyer made of their "right" to randomly drop mail from taxpaying clients. Trying to imagine a parallel world where they randomly blocked phone calls based on an opaque algo applied to the caller-id. Also, if "unusual" user-agents are being scored down, I'd think that might have accessibility / DDA implications. But that's probably can of worms not to open here, right now :) Steve
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