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What is the impact of hitting pristine vs. recycled traps on recovery?

Trap type impact differences:

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).