In message <ef5fe0e6d5824eec801035ede6b24...@scc.senate.gov>, Ferris, Rhys (SCC) via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> writes
>In the last 24 hours we have received 693,937 emails >from select freemail domains with top senders having sent between 500 and 800 >emails in a single day. This has been ongoing and in the last 30 days we have >received 23,196,000+ emails from selected freemail domains. Raising this issue here is not the way forward, in my personal view If a complaint is to be made about too many repetitive emails from a particular sender then the recipient needs to make that complaint to an appropriate abuse team who will then assess whether to take action. Postmasters (who inhabit this list) are not usually in a position to see the content of emails passing through their systems and so although they can tell that many emails are being sent they cannot tell whether they are all the same or, perhaps part of an ongoing conversation. Hence they will find it difficult to know (rather than guess) what is going on. Note that sending many emails from an automated system is not necessarily abusive -- otherwise security cameras and cron jobs would not be allowed to function as they do -- but if someone is sending, say, 100 emails a day (to make essentially the same argument every time) to many different senators then that does not seem reasonable activity to me. If any of the senators wish to complain (rather than filter or reject the traffic) then I expect that many if not all abuse teams would take some appropriate action. Should you have lots of recipients in the same position then you could make a complaint on behalf of a group of them, but note how you need to be able to discuss the content of the emails to make your case. Finally, you may be seeing X emails per time period from Y people. If X is large then making an abuse complaint is straightforward -- even if Y is large. A competent abuse team ought to be able to cope with one complaint giving the details of all Y senders. If X is small and Y is large and you suspect that the sending accounts are under the control of a single person then that you can make an abuse report about that as well. However, you will appreciate that is harder for recipients to identify that this is what is occurring, albeit the abuse team should have appropriate tooling to identify "mass reg" and that will almost certainly lead to accounts being shut down. -- richard Richard Clayton Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755
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