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Comment by nkassis | Hacker News Reader

I bet they will get blacklisted on google yahoo and hotmail before they are done. That's a lot of email.

I've often wondered how companies such as the ones listed in another comment (MailChimp, Campaign Monitor, SendGrind) avoid being banned, or any company that sends a large amount of mail. Is something that just requires you to build up reputation over time?

It's a multi stepped process: use different IPs for different clients, warm up the IPs to build good reputation, actively work with ISPs to whitelist the IPs, enroll in loopback programs with the ISPs, carefully monitor spam complaint and bounce rates, etc.

Sending a large amount of email to a well established list can actually help your reputation, since the ISPs see that you send large numbers of emails that don't get reported as span -- that makes the (hopefully) few that do not affect your reputation as much.

My email from teamhint was in my Gmail spam folder.

If there weren't a nugget of truth in this, this phrase from the email would actually be hilarious:

"We HIGHLY recommend you change all of your online passwords as a precaution."

Thankfully my Gawker password was limited to a few sites of no worth and you can't deduce any of my other ones form it.

There's a little bit of scaremongering in that sentence though. Why change your other passwords, UNLESS your Gawker password was your email password too? After 19 years on the Internet, I have a lot of logins.

OpenID ain't looking too bad now, is it?

Well hey, cut them a little slack. They shouldn't have to account for the computer security diaspora.

Preparing, negotiating, and generally trying to avoid this may be what's taking the longest.

FWIW, my password reset email was sent via Gawker side-project kinja.com. Curious.

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