Especially someone who stands to gain if they only need to get cozy with two email providers to deliver their spam.

(Blog author) runs the email infrastructure measurement project at Live Direct Marketing

Google offers "mail merge in Gmail to send personalized email campaigns, newsletters, and announcements to a wide audience." [1]

Based on how much @gmail.com spam I used get within GMail I can only assume they treat mail from their internal accounts much more favourably then us dirty self hosters.

[1]: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12921167

"(Blog author) runs the email infrastructure measurement project at Live Direct Marketing" - really? amazing.

minimum effort business model posting minimum effort slop to promote minimum effort agenda. the world disgusts me. RIPE really should know better, this isn't a mistake.

edit: fuck me, from the author page:

Email: art-online-shop@yandex.ru Website: https://check.live-direct-marketing.online/email-stats/

- may as well be a spam email itself