The outsourcing of too many mail systems to too few massive cloud
providers - which accelerated in recent years - is starting to harm
email. The pressure on these companies to be extremely profitable for
shareholders and keep the profit per mailbox as high as possible -
combined with them being in a "we're too big to blacklist" situation -
where they don't have to take their own spam-sending issues AS seriously
as most others - is beginning to harm quality of service in their spam
filtering. (or, at that that is the case for at least a couple of the
largest cloud email/spam-filtering providers) - and then it gets
hypocritical when they get hyper-aggressive in their spam filtering,
even if that causes false positives - all the while sending MUCH spam
out themselves. Its obnoxious.
--Rob McEwen
On 10/31/2018 12:53 PM, Steve Dodd wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 16:44, Laura Atkins <la...@wordtothewise.com
<mailto: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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