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Re:Gmail users “hard pass” on plan to let political emails b... by nunez on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:31AM (#32083292)
Honestly, if you read the notice [1] their legal team sent to the FCC, it just sounds like a manual process for verifying an email address as not spam that people can still one-click unsubscribe from/mark as spam. The emails would still be scanned for spam and bounced if they are spammy, at least according to the notice.

It doesn't seem like anything users would notice.

[1] https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/aos/2022-14/202214R_1.pdf

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Re:Gmail users “hard pass” on plan to let political emails b... by ec109685 on Sunday July 17, 2022 @08:13PM (#32132975)
No, normally a political party that sends a large amount of unsolicited e-mail would quickly have their email delivered to bulk.

Now it’s up to each user to mark the email as spam / click unsubscribe.

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