-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:jeffc@surbl.org] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 5:15 PM To: Chris Santerre Cc: 'SURBL Discussion list'; rob@pvsys.com Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] exacttarget-MUNGED.com

On Monday, July 19, 2004, 9:42:29 AM, Chris Santerre wrote:

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On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Rob McEwen wrote:

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The offending domain found in this newsletter is the following:

exacttarget-MUNGED.com

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These guys apear to be shammers (Spam and ham). NANAS has a

bunch of posts.

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I believe they were added due to a Home Depot spam run to a bunch of harvested addresses. They are NOT white.

Somewhat in their defense, they appear to be a commercial mailing company with quasi-reasonable (not 100% confirmed opt-in?) anti-spam policies:

http://website.exacttarget.com/exacttarget_company_antispam.asp

http://website.exacttarget.com/exacttarget_bestpractices_permission.asp

Perhaps Home Depot was an isolated incident with a bad data source.

Agreed. They may have hired a shady marketer that did the run without them knowing. However if any of you have a Keep-An-Eye-On file, I would put these guys in it.

--Chris