On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Michael Scheidell wrote:
What are you seeing? more main-sleaze spam, directly targeting your company/vertical market or clients? or aren't you seeing much of this?
We aren't overwhelmed with it, but now that you mention it, I've been seeing a slow steady trickle of (technically non-spam) direct mail ads to just my main address, but none of my users. The mail is generally from a relatively local (within 100km) legitimate company with a passing relevance to my business.
All of them contain opt-out instructions, but the varition of the instructions and links make it look like genuine, sincere opt-out, and not a spammers 'confirmation tool'. The feeling I get is that someone has harvested a community services directory and sold it as a 'mailng list' to these companies.
And as you noted, it's almost impossible to detect them as spam. Fortunately there are very few of them.... :) - Charles
