On 2026-01-21 at 10:50:51 UTC-0500 (Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:50:51 -0500)
Greg Troxel <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
I just got an email from (last name replaced by doe in case this is
legit:
From: Netcom <[email protected]>
It's not, and the supposed name is 'cooper' in my copy.
It was apparently sent via MailChimp (apparently now an Intuit company?)
to everyone on this mailing list. e.g. it was sent to the unique address
I use for this list.
with new Ts&Cs and that my services are going to be migrated. I'm not
in the UK and I'm not a netcom customer. That makes it spam. But it
looks okish, were I a customer.
It also looks like a confirmation pass by a spammer who wants to look
legit.
Further searching for this content to find a legit source was really
hard, so it feels like phish. It arrived
Received: from mail47.us4.mcsv.net (mail47.us4.mcsv.net
[205.201.128.47])...
and I've complained to mailchip. That's all normal and it would not
cause mme to write.
I'm writing because this spam got a ton of negative points: -5.9!
It seems that mailchimp in general, or this emitter, is registered as
only sending opt-in mail. Which is pretty clearly not true.
Has anyone else been seeing spam via mailchimp, that is wrongly
getting
lots of negative points?
Not a lot, which is likely because I have custom local rules and score
adjustments which result in rejection of most MC mail, including ALL of
their garbage not sent to a tagged address.
I'll write to isipp.com support and see how that goes.
Seems like the right choice.
-2.1 RCVD_IN_IADB_OPTIN RBL: IADB: All mailing list mail is opt-in
[205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
-1.2 RCVD_IN_IADB_OPTIN_GT50 RBL: IADB: Opt-in used more than 50% of
the
time
[205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
-0.4 RCVD_IN_IADB_LISTED RBL: Participates in the IADB system
[205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
-2.2 RCVD_IN_IADB_VOUCHED RBL: ISIPP IADB lists as vouched-for
sender
[205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
You may wish to weaken the IADB "OPTIN" and "VOUCHED" rules, as they
really are not very accurate.
--
Bill Cole
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(AKA @[email protected] and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
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