MainSleaze

This week I’m providing a new type of spam report. It consists of a table that lists company names, the number of spams that they have sent to my spamtrap email addresses in the previous week, and the number of spamtrap email addresses that they’ve mailed. I am including only spam that is sent to those email addresses for which I accept delivery (perhaps 5% of total delivery attempts) and am excluding spam sent to any email address at a domain that is known to belong to me.

I’m doing this because I realized that, while individual mainsleaze spam reports are useful to companies or ESPs that want to fix their spam problems, they don’t show the full picture to other readers. Some of the spams that I’ve blogged about have been one-time events; the companies that sent them disappeared from my mainsleaze folder after sending those spams and I haven’t seen them since. Some of the spams that I blogged about in October, however, are still showing up regularly. I try to post an update to the comment thread, and occasionally blog about a repeat spammer again, but that often doesn’t give the real picture of just how much spam this particular company is sending.

After you review this, please let me know if this is useful and how it might be made more useful by posting a comment or sending me email.