[112440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Thu Feb 26 10:00:09 2009
Date: 26 Feb 2009 14:59:58 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <7F2E53DA-2A67-4304-AF8B-992E3100207F@smtps.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
>Nor should they. Anyone who actually researches this stuff knows that
>the vast majority of "unsub" links simply confirm you as a live target
>who will click on random links sent to them through e-mail.
That's the conventional wisdom, not confirmed by research. The FTC
tried it in 2002 and found that opt-out made the spam load drop
slightly, and I don't see any reason to think it would be different
today.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2002/04/51517
R's,
John
