Legal notices being tagged as spam (was Re: email spam)

[Anne Mitchell <amitchell () isipp com>]

> On Aug 23, 2022, at 7:33 PM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:
>
> 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/
>
> "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."

..and for those who don't have access to the WashPo, that was in 2020, and he was just arrested again for repeat 
offending, and "Police arrested Thornton again and were surprised he was still employed by Fairfax County Public 
Schools." (Because of the email notification they had sent in 2020 which, of course, was never delivered, but the 
police didn't know that.)

This is one of the primary reasons that three of our data response codes that receiving systems get when querying the 
IADB DNSL (what senders know as "the Good Senders List") are:

127.3.200.120   Legally mandated email – email from this IP address consists entirely of communications that are 
required by law

127.3.200.130   Court-ordered email – email from this IP address consists entirely of communications that have been 
ordered by a court of law such as public notice of service or notifications of class action lawsuits to members of the 
class

127.3.200.255   Services the emergency alert or first-responder sector – email from this IP address consists of 
time-critical urgent or emergency communications

Of course, if the sender isn't certified with is - or the receiving system doesn't query us - that doesn't help, but we 
*are* trying hard to do our part.

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Anne P. Mitchell,  Esq.
CEO Get to the Inbox by ISIPP SuretyMail
Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law)
Author: The Email Deliverability Handbook
Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange
Dean Emeritus, Cyberlaw & Cybersecurity, Lincoln Law School
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Chair Emeritus, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop
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