Comments on: Verifying email addresses

By: Steve Linford

Steve Linford — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:27:52 +0000

Having personally received spam this morning from netflip.co.uk AKA smartspend.co.uk AKA submissiontechnology.co.uk, who after being SBL’d for sending it tell me they acquired my email address from win4now.co.uk, I see that win4now.co.uk is still running an open list.

Checking our database I find that win4now.co.uk’s 213.86.174.170 is currently still on the SBL for spamming from Colt.net, win4now.co.uk appears in an SBL listing of customermails.com SBL’d for spamming from Clara.net, and was involved in spam sent by emailinform.ccemails.com spamming from Cogento.com.

I think carrots may have failed and its probably time for a rather large stick…

Steve Linford
Chief Stick Wielder
The Spamhaus Project

By: win4now employee

win4now employee — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:47:11 +0000

Hi Laura,

I’ve stumpled accross this site and read your concerns about win4now.
I’m sorry this is a long time after the problem but i’d like to help solve your problem if i can?

Our privacy email address gets forwarded onto our customer services department. Please email me at adele @ win4now co uk and i’ll ensure someone helps you.

Adele at Win4now

By: laura

laura — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:26:11 +0000

Hi, Jennifer,

I emailed you directly, but I can be reached at laura-blog wordtothewise

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:25:11 +0000

Laura,how does one get a hold of you? do you have an email address? Thks.

By: laura

laura — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:41:14 +0000

I tend to use the “joe@aol.com” example to clients of reasons that you need to verify addresses. I think I’m going to have to use jay and the hooker from now on.

I have this feeling we crossed path years ago (back when I was abuse@) but I can’t pinpoint where.

By: Jay Levitt

Jay Levitt — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:30:28 +0000

Amen! When I used jay@aol.com as my daily e-mail address (this was cool once; trust me), about 2/3 of my inbox was “misguided” e-mail. It was very helpful in making decisions about which web sites had good e-mail hygiene. If nothing else, you could expect a form letter from me pointing that out. It led to some very productive discussions (and taught me a lot about UI design).

My favorite misguided e-mail was the reservation confirmation for the fly-in hooker… sadly, several thousand miles away, or I might have met the “other Jay” at the airport to have a little chat.

By: James Hoddinott

James Hoddinott — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:51:18 +0000

Yes, I’ve received a number of win4now.co.uk mails in recent days. Having checked more closely I see that I also have mail from emailinform.com as well now.

Might be interesting to try and trace back /this/ signup too…