As of June 2009, the latest stat I found, Gmail has 5.51% share of email users, 1/3 of either hotmail or yahoo mail. Definitely not "tens of percentage points."
"expect to be able to use email" This just summarizes the problem. People "expect" to use a free email system and still be treated equally to those who pay good money for a legitimate SMTP host that cares about the quality of service they provide to their customers.
Legitimate email providers take measures to ensure their customers aren't spammers and those who don't end up on the spammer lists and this is exactly the way it should be.
Until Google takes a stand against the spammers who use their systems, they should be on the list just like all the others.
I know the google fanboys will hate this, but the problem is letting just anyone or just any machine create an account and use your service. It's google's responsibility to can the spam coming from their domain. Google doesn't care though. If they make it harder to get a gmail account, then they make it harder to spam their "legitimate" users with advertisements and why would they want to do that?
If you are a company that provides spamming capabilities to anyone and everyone, then it is exactly valid to add them to a spam list.
You could say, "Plenty of legitimate users use gmail." Fine, maybe so, but if you are someone who uses gmail, you are surrounded by a cadre of spammers and should understand your credibility is instantly devalued.
Birds of a feather flock together. The solution is to stop using gmail.com.
A VERY VERY high percentage of spam in my inbox comes from gmail accounts. If tens of percentages points of spam is sent from a domain, then it's valid to add them to the list of spamming domains.
That's not necessarily true. I agree with the other guy that you are really just scraping content and trying to profit off it. If people really wanted to save their content, they could have done that. Most of what you have is probably abandoned.
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