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Re: email spam


From: Eric Tykwinski <eric-list () truenet com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:20:13 -0400

Bill,

Not only that, did they even follow their own rules, I’ve been fighting with septa.org, the Pennsylvania train 
authority, and easypassnj.com, the New Jersey transit toll collectors about invalid SPF records for years, and they 
literally don’t give a shit.  If they say to put it in spam, well than that is their own fault.

Sincerely,

Eric Tykwinski
TrueNet, Inc.
P: 610-429-8300

On Aug 23, 2022, at 10:00 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com> wrote:

Without saying why the mail was blocked (dumb content filter looking for porn? a spamhaus listing because the police 
server was hacked? something else?) that’s not going to help too much.

I’ve been spam filtering stuff at large providers since the late 90s and it never gets any easier to block 100% spam 
or let 100% legit mail through.

—srs

--srs
From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+ops.lists=gmail.com () nanog org> on behalf of William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 7:03:52 AM
To: nanog () nanog org <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: email spam
 
Hello,

To folks at places like Google and Godaddy which have gotten, shall we
say, overzealous about preventing spam from entering their systems,
consider the risk:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/08/23/fairfax-county-counselor-solicitation-minor/ 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/08/23/fairfax-county-counselor-solicitation-minor/>

"Chesterfield County police said emails notifying Fairfax County
Public Schools that an employee was arrested and charged with
soliciting prostitution from a minor were not delivered to the school
system."

Long story short, the pedo kept his school job another year and a half.

There was once a time when both the outbound emails and the bounce
messages when they failed... worked. It was a spammy place but the
important emails got through.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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