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Oh! I know! I work for a large company. At one point, we sent so much junk mail, we were the Post Office's #1 customer (in the US). We have started to send junk
by geoduck14 6y ago
Oh! I know! I work for a large company. At one point, we sent so much junk mail, we were the Post Office's #1 customer (in the US). We have started to send junk emails, too.
There is a Swedish company (non profit? Activist group? IDK) called SpamHause. They partner with ISPs to help block spam. Their process is something along the lines of:
1) Inject fake email addresses into lists of email addresses that are bought/sold WITHOUT user consent
2) Wait until someone UNAUTHORIZED emails them spam
3) Tell the ISPs (and anyone else who will listen) to STOP processing emails from the companies that sent them spam.
4) The ISPs block the companies because SpamHause is reputable and REALLY good at finding spam, also the ISPs save money by "not having to process the spam
We accidentally got a hold of a bad batch of email addresses several years ago and we spent MONTHS trying to fishout and overhaul our email authorization process. It cost us $10s of millions.
Also, WHY were we sending that spam?!?