Avaaz in "grave danger" due to GMail spam filters

[staticsafe]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:15:31PM +0200, Moon Jones wrote:
> On 20.08.2013 14:43, staticsafe wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:15:31PM +0200, Moon Jones wrote:
> >>On 19.08.2013 18:44, staticsafe wrote:
> >>>The biggest problem being spam. We need to educate typical e-mail users
> >>>about e-mail hygiene and spam fighting.
> >>
> >>What do you mean by «e-mail hygiene» and «spam fighting»?
> >
> >E-mail hygiene:
> >- Using aliases for every company you deal with, or using recipient
> >   delimiters like "+" so it is easier to find out which company sold you
> >   out.
> >- Exercise more caution when handing out your "primary" address
> >- Avoid services that like to spam your addressbook (see: LinkedIn etc.)
> >
> >Spam fighting:
> >- Using DNSBLs to cut down on the crap
> >- Training spamassassin's DB with ham and spam.
> >- Enact rate limiting policies so that a compromised account can only do
> >   limited amount of damage.
> 
> Oops. My bad.
> 
> Than what do you mean by «typical e-mail user»?
> 

Someone who primarily uses webmail and big e-mail service providers.
Probably doesn't even /care/ about e-mail, e-mail isn't cool after all.
;)
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