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AOL/Microsoft-Hotmail Preventing Delivery of Truthout Communications NOTE DUE TO THEIR REPUTATION djf
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:01:17 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Adam Thornton <adam () io com> Date: September 16, 2007 2:01:00 AM EDT To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] AOL/Microsoft-Hotmail Preventing Delivery of Truthout Communications NOTE DUE TO THEIR REPUTATION djf
[for IP, if you like] On Sep 15, 2007, at 12:26 PM, David Farber wrote:
We fight this battle every day. AOL, Yahoo, and Hotmail / MSN are in a league of their own when it comes to policing incoming e- mails, due to the size of their customer bases. If a “lot” of their customers tell them that they are receiving unwanted e-mail from a sender, that sender’s reputation suffers. If a sender utilizes IP addresses that are used to send some other sender’s unwanted e-mail, the sender’s reputation suffers. If a sender sends too much e-mail all at once, the sender’s reputation suffers. If the sender has “unclean” lists, with lots of bounces, their reputation suffers. And so on.
This, however, suggests an interesting attack.Let's say you set policy for a large group, with a well-defined political agenda.
Probably, a large number of your members have AOL, Yahoo, and Hotmail accounts, because, well, a lot of people have those accounts.
So you put out word--in your talking points of the day memo, or whatever your organ of frequent communication with the members of your group--to your members to please complain to the abuse department of their ISP that some group with a different agenda is spamming them.
This sort of astroturf campaign is essentially the way the FCC and library boards have been gamed in the past, and it would seem that if this is not already happening in the overtly political sphere, it's overdue.
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