Peter N. M. Hansteen asks the question, "Does Your Email Provider Know What A "Joejob" Is?" in his blog and provides some data and discussion. He provides anecdotal evidence which seems to indicate that Google and possibly other mail service providers are either quite ignorant of history when it comes to email and spam, or are applying unsavory tactics to capture market dominance.
[Ed Note: I had to look up "joe job" to find out what it is. According to wikipedia:
A joe job is a spamming technique that sends out unsolicited e-mails using spoofed sender data. Early joe jobs aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender or inducing the recipients to take action against them (see also e-mail spoofing), but they are now typically used by commercial spammers to conceal the true origin of their messages.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 25 2016, @11:45AM
> LOL, in what way might I be "disingenuous about PGP," pray tell?
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> "Attempt to send," then, if you prefer. A spammer can attempt to send messages to any e-mail address in the world,
Same way you are being disingenuous now. What an utterly meaningless, goal-post moving restatement.
But whatever it takes to make you feel like you weren't just being a snarky idiot, right?
Did you know how apropos your username was when you picked it?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday April 25 2016, @03:43PM
Not at all. I was simply offering a clarification. You prefer to misunderstand, fine.