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Almost three months after I blogged about spam from Blair, a U.S.-based mail order operation, the spam continues unabated to that spamtrap. Whatever the original reasons for this email address being on Blair’s list, they don’t seem concerned that their email is hitting a spamtrap. Their ESP is Yesmail, a division of Infogroup.

Blair is not the only Yesmail customer that seems unconcerned about the spam that they send. I don’t believe that Yesmail cares either, except if the quantity of spamtrap hits is sufficient to result in a blacklisting. After carefully watching what legitimate companies and ESPs send to my spamtraps for three months, certain patterns have become obvious. One of them is that Yesmail spam is persistent; once a spamtrap starts to receive email from a Yesmail customer, the email does not usually stop.

Sending IP: 206.165.243.201

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from blair-201.blair.postdirect.com (blair-201.blair.postdirect.com [206.165.243.201])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:xx:xx PST
From: "Blair.com Email Specials" <blair@e.blair.com>
Subject: Elect to save $5, $10, even $20 today!
To: <xxx>
X-Header-Versions: <xxx>
X-Header-CompanyDBUserName: blair
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:<xxx>@e.blair.com?subject=unsubscribe>
Message-ID: <<xxx>@e.blair.com>
X-Vitals: <xxx>
Reply-To: Blair_comEmailSpecials.<xxx>@e.blair.com
X-Header-MasterId: <xxx>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="<xxx>"

Readable Email:

From: Blair.com Email Specials <blair@e.blair.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Elect to save $5, $10, even $20 today!
Reply-To: Blair_comEmailSpecials.<xxx>@e.blair.com

Blair.com Email Specials
Quality, service and value since 1910.
Your satisfaction is our guarantee.

To view this email with images, please click here.
http://links.blair.com/t.d?<xxx>

Please add blair@e.blair.com to your address book to keep receiving our specials.

Stretch your dollar with this special Presidents’ Day offer!

$5 off your $25 online order
$10 off your $50 online order
$20 off your $75 online order

Click here to shop now.
http://links.blair.com/u.d?<xxx>

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If you would rather not receive future email offers from Blair, please click this link to remove your email address, <xxx>, from our list.
http://pages.blair.com/unsubscribe.jsp?<xxx>

Click this link to update your Blair email preferences.
http://pages.blair.com/update_profile.jsp?<xxx>

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