[ih] Email reliability

[Jack Haverty]

Many of my other mailing-list subscriptions are failing more than 
usual.  Someone on one of them noted:

"Virtually every e-mail service now has feedback loops built in where, 
when someone marks a message as spam, that information is sent back to 
the email service provider and they use this to tweak their spam 
filters.  Some are much more discriminating about how this is done than 
others are and, for some, all it takes is a very few spam reports for 
something to suddenly become classified on the server side as spam.
"

Apparently if receivers of a distribution list email somehow tag it as 
spam, it may lead to that list being categorized as a spam source and 
all its email being filtered out because the site is now listed on one 
of many "blacklists"?

IMHO, Internet Mail is seriously broken and getting worse.   Is there 
any organization or authority (ISOC, IETF, FCC, ISO, PTTs, governments, 
UN, whatever...) who accepts responsibility for the viability of email?

Jack Haverty

On 1/14/24 12:06, Jack Haverty wrote:
> Found it, thanks.  I was looking at the headers of a "direct" message 
> instead of the copy I usually get via internet-history.
>
> The internet-history processor adds fields to the header, but also 
> modifies the body of the message, e.g., inserting the "footer" with 
> the list information.  Among other things, that breaks my PGP signature.
>
> However it also appears that the "new" message with the altered From 
> field and message body, still has the original Message-ID field that 
> my composer assigned.  But it's no longer the message that I wrote... 
> it's been modified in transit.   Isn't such behavior in violation of 
> something?
>
> On 1/14/24 11:23, Grant Taylor via Internet-history wrote:
>> On 1/14/24 12:57, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
>>> At least I don't see any "unsubscribe" header...perhaps that rule 
>>> won't be enforced at first.  We'll see...
>>
>> The "List-Unsubscribe:" header is there.
>>
>> List-Id: "Discussions about Internet History."
>>     <internet-history.elists.isoc.org>
>> List-Unsubscribe: 
>> <https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/options/internet-history>,
>> <mailto:internet-history-request at elists.isoc.org?subject=unsubscribe>
>> List-Archive: <http://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/>
>> List-Post: <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>
>> List-Help: 
>> <mailto:internet-history-request at elists.isoc.org?subject=help>
>> List-Subscribe: 
>> <https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history>,
>> <mailto:internet-history-request at elists.isoc.org?subject=subscribe>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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