On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:39:25PM -0400, Bill Cole wrote:
The overwhelming majority of mail I am offered by the Gmail outbounds is
spam. Google has played games with how they will accept abuse reports,
giving the appearance of not really wanting them.
Fully agreed.
Large cheap and free mail providers understand the advantage they get
from their scale in not needing to do as well with egress filtering as
smaller mixed sources of mail. There is very little risk to them of
missing 95% of their outbound spam, as long as they never drop legitimate
outbound mail and keep their outbound legitimate mail volume large enough
that it is hard for many sites to treat their mail as presumptive spam.
And this in a nutshell is why so many "accountability" proposals,
while curious/interesting academic exercises, are dead-on-arrival in
the real world: these providers are TBTB (too big to block), they know
it, and so no matter how many different technologies are deployed which
repeatedly tell us what we've already known for years (e.g. "Hotmail sends
enormous quantities of spam") nothing useful will happen as a result --
until/unless widespread refusal of traffic comes into play.
---Rsk
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