Showing posts with the label email append
Way back in June 2012 on the Strongmail blog, Deliverablity Strategist Sean Wirt shared a tale wherein he was email appended in to mailings from a credit union somewhere in the US. What we seem to have here is a financial institution guessing at somebody's email address an…
I just read in Mediapost's Online Media Daily that the debate over email append got heated at the recent MediaPost Email Insider Summit . Jordan Cohen, vice president of business development at Pontiflex, was direct: "[Email append] is not really okay to do." He c…
Over on the Email Responsibly blog, Experian CheetahMail's Ben Isaacson explains "that Experian CheetahMail believes that opt-out email appending is no longer an acceptable practice, and that marketers should no longer use this practice to acquire customer email addre…
Today I stumbled across SBL listing SBL120550 , which says the following: "Several IPs in this /28 are sending spam to spamtraps advertising the services of ADT Home Security. The IPs belong to InfoCanada, a division of InfoUSA, via their Yesmail ESP. InfoUSA also sel…
A couple of years ago I posted here how my wife and I started getting oddly addressed email from a supposedly legitimate company, addressed to an address we never use, addressed to a person we don't know. Why? How? Email append .
As widely reported, MAAWG, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group put out a statement a couple of weeks ago basically condemning email append. Find a link to the statement here , or click here to read Laura Atkins' coverage of the announcement. MAAWG is a broad ISP, email…
Spam to a new domain isn't uncommon. Lots of spammers comb whois, search the web, scrape forums, looking for any domain they can find, and then they try mailing to variations of made up addresses at that domain to see if they get through to a real live mailbox. So, setting …
" Is there anything wrong with collecting business cards and selling the list? " -- Ian Cooper, president of new business development for EmailAppenders. Yes, Ian, there's something wrong with everything you do. You enable people to send spam. Not exactly somethin…
Hey, what? Did I really just read that? An email appender sending out a press release about how to combat spam? Wait...the company name sounds familiar. Is it the company Ken Magill talks about here ? Ha. Methinks somebody is trying to spread some fluff around in an effort…