Re: Cold emails are not considered spam?

2025-05-09 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
nd cold email (thinking the GDPR loophole here). Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 Creator of the term 'deliverability'; Co-Founder of the deliverability industry Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange Dea

Re: Ways to reduce calls to Validity BLs (was Validity (return path blocklist))

2025-04-08 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
a little bit less heavy lifting, and can focus their resources on >> actual spam? >> That is the *entire* reason for our being > > with the new limits your beeing has no longer any reason We are not Validity, we are the other guys, we have no limits, never have, never will. We

Re: Ways to reduce calls to Validity BLs (was Validity (return path blocklist))

2025-04-08 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
, to help keep email usable and to better identify good email versus spam so that receivers have to do a little bit less heavy lifting, and can focus their resources on actual spam? That is the *entire* reason for our being. Anne CEO ISIPP SuretyMail (the IADB Good Senders List, a/k/a "t

Re: Welcome to the new Chair of SpamAssassin PMC

2025-04-05 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
; voted in by PMC and approved by the ASF Board of Directors. Congratulations, Giovanni! And congratulations to you, Sidney, on passing the crown! Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law) CEO Inst

Re: Fake paypal email triggers -7.5 USER_IN_DEF_DKIM_WL From: address is in the default DKIM

2025-01-30 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
(so far at least) is that the 1 prefix of the phone number is actually an uppercase i (so "I" not "1"), so that spam filters can identify the scams by filtering on "Call-I(" Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Legislative Advisor Author:

Re: All RCVD_IN_VALIDITY rules being applied to every email.

2024-11-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
month that Scott Weiss started Bonded Sender). All we ask is that if you are going to do a ton of querying, that you transfer the zone to a local copy instead of querying directly. Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Legislative Advisor Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPA

Re: ATTENTION: DNSWL to be disabled by default.

2024-09-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
fact that we charge a relatively small monthly sum to the senders makes firing them pretty painless. Thus it has always been - best practices over money *always* - we can take this stand because we are, always have been, and always will be, privately held, and the buck stops with me). Anne -- Ann

Re: Lots of FN because of VALIDITY* rules

2024-06-14 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
B tests) not doing the right thing! Thank you, Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Internet Law & Policy Attorney CEO Institute for Social Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law) Creator of the term 'deliverability

Re: OT - Hotmail/Outlook.com marking most of our email as Junk

2022-02-19 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
t for deliverability (so *not*, for example, from your Gmail account), then send a second email to supp...@gettotheinbox.com from the email account at which you'd like to receive our findings, tell them Anne sent you :-), and in that second email tell them who the test email was from, and the s

Re: netflix phishing emails forwarded via sendgrid

2021-02-02 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Does anyone have a copy of the netflix phishing that they could forward to me at amitch...@isipp.com, including the body of it? TIA! Anne > On Feb 2, 2021, at 1:04 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > > On 2021-02-02 03:25, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >> Since it's already hitt

Re: Technically not spam

2020-05-29 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
rule-provision-under-can-spam-act The more in-depth version is here: https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/federal_register_notices/definitions-and-implementation-under-can-spam-act-16-cfr-part-316/080521canspamact.pdf Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Dean of Cyberlaw & Cybersecur

Re: Technically not spam

2020-05-29 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
mailings, each of which you have to > seek out individually) is … well, not going to work with many users, > especially the less technical. Not to mention that it is a violation of Federal law. Federal law requires a "one-step" unsubscribe method. Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.

Re: who is IADB and why does this spam get a -3.8 score?

2019-08-08 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
The offending sender has been terminated by the ESP. > On Aug 7, 2019, at 3:06 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. > wrote: > > Hi David! > > We are the IADB, and if you are getting spam from an accredited IP address, > we definitely want to know about it. The reason that em

Re: who is IADB and why does this spam get a -3.8 score?

2019-08-07 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
l take the responsible party to task for it, and asap. Can you please forward a copy, with headers, directly to me, and I will personally make sure that it is taken care of, and with haste. Thank you. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, Institute for Social Internet Public Poli

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-25 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
w the signature in muted colours, in a collapsed state, or by > other means of making it less intrusive. That's odd...until you mentioned it I wasn't aware that my MUA was *not* including that!...let me see if I can figure out why it isn't. Thank you! Anne (suppressing .sig for now)

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-25 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
th you...however when discussing things actually having to do with the law, I have found that establishing my expertise and authority up front tends to ward off lengthy discussions that take up way more mailing list bandwidth than the signature. Much like this email, really. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Atto

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> On Nov 21, 2018, at 12:03 PM, Bill Cole > wrote: > > On 21 Nov 2018, at 13:03, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote: > >> Except for the private right of action provided in GDPR, and small claims >> court in the U.S. > > Are you saying an EU law can create an ac

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
tty damned gutsy. It will almost certainly be sorted out through lawsuits, and that will definitely be popcorn time. > On Nov 21, 2018, at 11:03 AM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. > wrote: > > > >> On Nov 21, 2018, at 8:48 AM, Bill Cole >> wrote: >> >> T

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
ere that it applies to EU residents or citizens, only the vague and ambiguous "in the EU") the language in GDPR that states they will go after anyone, anywhere in the world. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law GDPR, CCPA (CA) & CCDPA (CO) Compliance Consultant Author: Sec

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
oupled with the private right of action suggests that you'd at least have a shot. The reason that political spam is exempted in the U.S. is because of the 1st Amendment..which of course does not apply outside the U.S.. ;-) Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law GDPR, CCPA (CA) & CCDPA (CO

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
il is exempt from most Federal law relating to email, email marketing, etc.. But THAT said, a word to their provider can (and sometimes does) still have the desired (individual) effect, because providers care about their IP space reputation (more so than most political campaigns). Anne An

Re: Bayes overtraining

2018-08-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
oportionate benefit to the sender.” Anything less is grounds for immediate termination. So, again, if you ever find anything that triggers an IADB rule that is not something for which you/your user affirmatively opted in, we want to know about it. The buck stops right here: Anne Anne P. Mitc

Re: IADB whitelist - again

2018-03-01 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
ally means the "you don't get to run an affiliate program and look the other way while you profit from your affiliates spamming - we're looking at you Gevalia" section." (*For those of you who are also law/policy wonks, text of Section 6 available upon request. :-)

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
smission and reception of the message appears to the recipient to give a disproportionate benefit to the sender.” I think that it still holds up. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Legislative Consultant CEO/President, I

Re: Tone of emails with subject: 'hey'

2018-02-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
Ironically, Gmail's spam filters have filtered every single one of the emails in this thread. :-\ Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Legislative Consultant CEO/President, Institute for Social Internet Public P

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > My sense is that ESPs engage ISIPP thinking they are getting an advocate and > ambassador to mailbox providers when in fact they get a teacher/evangelist > for sender best practices. ITYM 'schooled in best practices. ;-) ;-) Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/Presi

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
rified sign-ups such as through web page" (which is one of our codes) ...they are never actually going to get certified (unless we can educate them and they actually change their wicked ways). You can see the full list of codes here: http://www.isipp.com/email-accreditation/about-the

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
already has tighter laws. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification and Inbox Delivery Assistance http://www.SuretyMail.com/ http://www.SuretyMail.eu/ Attorney at Law / Legislative Consultant Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (th

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
ated for SA because SA *can* take advantage of that level of granularity)). Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification and Inbox Delivery Assistance http://www.SuretyMail.com/ http://www.SuretyMail.eu/ Attorney at Law / Legislative Consul

Response from ISIPP (was Re: ISIPP - Re: bb.barracudacentral.org)

2017-11-15 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
he *receiving* community (for those who don't know, I came to this by way of being in-house counsel for Paul Vixie and MAPS, so I am seriously anti-spam, and part of the receiving community); but we can't address any issues if they aren't brought to our attention. That just happene

MailChimp Update (Was Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware)

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
MailChimp has said that they believe that they have terminated all accounts that were responsible for this. BUT, they say, this is a group that keeps cropping up (think whack-a-mole), so to please report any more of these that anyone receives. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Author

Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
Sorry for top-posting, but just to let folks know, our contact has just let me know that he is on this; I'll report back with anything I hear that I can share. Anne > > Hi, > >>> Another email from a whitelisted mailchimp address that contains malware. >>> &

Re: Off-topic, was: [Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware]

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > On Friday 20 October 2017 at 19:29:31, Anne P. Mitchell Esq. wrote: > >> Anne P. Mitchell, >> Attorney at Law > > I'm intrigued as to what the "Esq." in your From address indicates? > > Please feel free to reply offlist if appropriate

Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
; Complicating things, it's in Italian. > > I've reported it to MailChimp and also removed mailchimp (mcdlv.net > and rsgsv.net) from the local whitelist. Alex, may I share this, confidentially and directly, with our abuse czar contact at Mailchimp? And if so, can you please gi

Re: ISIPP - Re: bb.barracudacentral.org

2017-09-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
than happy to do that - that's *always* been how we do things - whatever makes it easiest for the *receiving* community, with whom, at the end of the day, our allegiance lays. ;-) Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law)

what happened to DATE_IN_PAST_48_96 ??

2007-06-18 Thread Anne
Hi, DATE_IN_PAST_48_96 was taken out since 3.2.x. Why?? What happens with spam between 48 and 96 hours in the past? thanks. Anne

Re: optimization failing--fixed

2006-01-13 Thread Anne Ramey
Anne Ramey wrote: I'm installed SA 3.1 with Amavisd-new and postfix 2.2.5 on fedora core 3 and am having serious mail slowdowns, as much as and hour. I've figure out it's SA because the SA check as taking 8-12 seconds, which was about 75%+ of the processing. I've been tr

Re: optimization failing

2006-01-13 Thread Anne Ramey
Anne Ramey wrote: Loren Wilton wrote: Basically only two possibilities: you're thrashing the poor box to death by running out of memory, or network tests are taking an age. Or maybe both. ok, I had a pyzor test timing out, but I've removed that, and it's still taking 6

Re: optimization failing

2006-01-13 Thread Anne Ramey
ffers cached Mem: 2007 1807200 0 23292 -/+ buffers/cache: 1491516 Swap: 2000 17 1982 ` Do you have a local caching DNS for the various RBL checks? not yet, the DNS server is just one hop. Anne Loren

optimization failing

2006-01-12 Thread Anne Ramey
n, but I think this will slow mail down further. I'm at a loss. What else can I do to optimize the performace? Thanks -- Anne