On 12/22/20 12:34, John Levine via mailop wrote:
In article <d8383e61-6be1-20c9-2e97-830139899...@easydns.com> you write:
The only basis on which these emails should be judged is on whether
they're spam or malware.
This suggests you're OK with child pornography and beheading videos so
long as subscribers ask for them. And what about the Malware of the
Day club?
Ignoring the obviously illegal child pornography and malware cases, if
someone affirmatively requests to receive beheading videos, or videos of
cute kittens, or stock tips, or....
then I'm OK with Sendgrid delivering them.
In the case of Sendgrid, speaking from my personal experience, they send
quite a bit of material that I have definitely NOT affirmatively
requested to receive, much of it to addresses that have never sent email
to anyone or subscribed to anything but are easily guessed.
Most of the content isn't offensive such as beheading videos, it's the
typical webinar/whitepaper cruft and sales pitches, but it's definitely
NOT anything I've ever asked to receive, and Sendgrid is sending it on
behalf of people that I have never heard of or done business with. It
isn't the content which is objectionable, it's the lack of consent.
This has been going on for a long time and is separate and apart from
their relatively recent delivery of phishing and 419 scams.
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Jay Hennigan - j...@west.net
Network Engineering - CCIE #7880
503 897-8550 - WB6RDV
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