[TriLUG] OT: Google advertising for spammers?

[Joel James Adamson]

Russ Jones <russ at virante.com> writes:

> First off, full disclosure, the owner of my company is the CEO of iContact
> (Ryan Allis).

No problems there...

[...]

> The reason why they have a 99.9% deliverability rate is BECAUSE they have
> been so effective, comparatively, of keeping out spammers, thereby allowing
> them to keep their mail servers whitelisted with major ISPs and Email
> Service Providers.

Can you explain this a little more?  How is it that they have 99.9%
deliverability --- and why they would even advertise that --- if they
are not sending unsolicited email?  What else does that mean?

Joel

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Joel J. Adamson
Servedio Lab
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

FSF Member #8164
http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj
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