Re: Implications of outsourcing email

["Roy S. Rapoport" <full-disclosure () ols inorganic org>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:02:54PM -0400, Gabe Arnold wrote:
> I got this too, and agree it looks sketchy, pehaps someone got hold of
> their list and wants to see what e-mails are still 'alive'? And what
> people are prone to click on everything they see.

It isn't -- I mean, I agree that it's reasonable to feel that it's sketchy,
but I'm on Best Buy's promo email list, and all my emails come from
postfuture.  I suspect BB outsourced their mass mail operations and didn't
quite understand the implications of sending security alerts through the
same service.   The issue is complicated by dealing with the URLs through
the same source (probably for link tracking).

-roy
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