[ih] Endless misconceptions about Email reliability

John R. Levine johnl at iecc.com
Mon Jan 15 14:25:40 PST 2024


> Some of the biggest sources of spam deliberately don't allow the
> recipient to mark a message as spam.  MailChimp is classic.  They will
> let you "Unsubscribe" from a list that is spamming you, but never give
> you a chance to say "I'm unsubscribing BECAUSE THEY SPAMMED ME."  They
> would rather keep collecting money from that spammer, than be told by
> the email recipients that they are facilitating spam.

I know people at Mailchimp too.  Fun conspiracy theory, but nope.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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