> On 13 Mar 2026, at 08:30, Thomas Walter via mailop <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 13.03.26 08:53, Laura Atkins via mailop wrote: >> K12 schools in the US have a lot of weird filtering rules, and not all >> of them are spam related. > > I was gonna say that. Us Euopeans are often blocked by US newspaper > websites because of they don't want to implement the data privacy stuff > like cookie banners, etc. or they are only allowed to release news from > aggregators locally because of licensing issues, etc. > > Policies can be weird in those regards.
Exactly. I’ve worked with some senders that focus on the educational space in the past - both at the K-12 level and and at the higher education level. There’s a lot of delivery challenges and very few of them can be solved with permission. Schools in the US are incredibly diverse in terms of who makes the policy - sometimes it’s the state, sometimes it’s the county, sometimes it’s the district, sometimes it’s the individual schools, sometimes it’s a parent volunteer, sometimes it’s a student. Blocking non-US IP space is one of the less weird policies I’ve seen. Some just completely deny all external mail, or mail that isn’t from parents, or any commercial email. And because their job isn’t to provide email access they just are not focused on making sure messages they blocked can get through. “They can get a gmail address” is a pretty common response to “we can’t email your students / faculty / administration." laura -- The Delivery Expert Laura Atkins Word to the Wise [email protected] Delivery hints and commentary: http://www.wordtothewise.com/blog
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