Some of us were talking at work about something I’ve thought for a long time: spam just doesn’t make sense.<\/p>\n
A coworker tried clicking on some spam a while ago. He was on a Mac and made sure the link wasn’t anything that contained unique identifiers. And none of the links worked. And then our site was inundated with spammers linking to nonexistent domains. I look up the domains, a long string of random characters: no whois record. And a lot of the spam that actually contains working links consists mostly of utter nonsense to try to slip past Bayesian filters.<\/p>\n
And yet spam is presumably profitable, even though it seems that the majority of it leaves you unable to buy their products even if you wanted to.<\/p>\n
Oh, here’s another fun one. We’ve been testing a new e-mail providers, which means that we’ve sent out tens of thousands of e-mails from a different IP than is listed in our SPF records. We’ve had just shy of 100% deliverability, suggesting that almost no one uses SPF.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some of us were talking at work about something I’ve thought for a long time: spam just doesn’t make sense. A coworker tried clicking on some spam a while ago. He was on a Mac and made sure the link … Continue reading