What is the impact of hitting pristine vs. recycled traps on recovery?
Pristine traps:
- Never valid email addresses
- Created specifically as traps
- Only hit by scraped or purchased lists
- Severe reputation impact
- Indicates serious list quality problems
- Harder to recover from
Recycled traps:
- Former valid addresses converted to traps
- Hit by senders not practicing hygiene
- Indicates poor list maintenance
- Less severe than pristine
- Recovery more straightforward
Recovery implications:
- Pristine hits require proving list source legitimacy
- Recycled hits require demonstrating improved hygiene
- Both require cleaning suspect lists
Hitting counterfeit detection (pristine) is worse than expired permit issues (recycled).
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