MailChimp's Ban on Cryptocurrency Marketing Is Causing Collateral Damage

Re:MailChimp's Ban on Cryptocurrency Marketing Is Causing Co... by gruez on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:37PM (#16761039)

>There's no way that they can get around that.

unless you use high entropy aliases, there's nothing preventing someone from filtering out all the emails with "uncommon" domains for secondary examination. at that point, you can manually ascertain whether the email address is an alias or not.

    [email protected]       probably a legit address
    [email protected]    probably an alias

at that point you can either not send to that email, or if you're extra evil, try to frame another company (try sending to [email protected] or [email protected]). it's not even that hard to do because 99.9% of people don't use custom email domains.

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Re:MailChimp's Ban on Cryptocurrency Marketing Is Causing Co... by kalleboo on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:54AM (#16764406)

Email marketing is a numbers game, I doubt anyone is wasting time looking at individual addresses.

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Re:MailChimp's Ban on Cryptocurrency Marketing Is Causing Co... by Zak on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:35AM (#16764750)

And even if a script could easily process addresses in an automated manner, it might be actively harmful to a marketer to do so. People who intentionally use disposable addresses are probably less likely to respond to email marketing and more likely to take actions against the marketer.

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