Email Senders' Best Communications Practices Document - Input Wanted

Matthew Vernhout, Director, Delivery & ISP Relations at Thindata is participating in an interesting initiative with The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group. (http://maawg.org)

The focus of MAAWG is on preserving electronic messaging from online exploits and abuse, with the goal of enhancing user trust and confidence, while ensuring the deliverability of legitimate messages.  This group has written a draft Email Senders' Best Communications Practices (BCP) document and would like to get feedback from the community before releasing a final version.

Here is a summary of Matthew’s note to me with details on how to provide feedback on this document…

You can find a copy of the draft here - http://www.maawg.org/about/MAAWG_Senders_BCP. We want to revise the draft, based on insights from a broad range of interested and knowledgeable parties.

If you were not aware of MAAWG, the group's focus is on preserving electronic messaging from online exploits and abuse, with the goal of enhancing user trust and confidence, while ensuring the deliverability of legitimate messages.  The Senders BCP effort is one of the initiatives that MAAWG is pursuing, to reduce messaging abuse while enabling legitimate messages to obtain unimpeded delivery.

MAAWG membership is diverse and the attached content reflects the perspectives of both leading email senders and receivers. We believe that conformance with the Senders BCP will improve deliverability for legitimate messages, yet lay a substantial foundation for successful dispute resolution.  We believe this document reflects a global perspective on successful messaging and welcome any insights that can further detail or delineate best practices for bulk senders.

At your convenience, but prior to our comments deadline of 12/22/06, please provide specific edits and comments about the BCP to; senderbcp@maawg.org.