Nov
19
October 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps October 2016
Severely late this month, to offset last month’s being well on time… 🙂
Oct
01
September 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps September 2016
On time this month, only four hours after data collection has ended!
The theme of this month’s post is Back to Basics, ou, si vous préférez, La Rentrée. The term has started and the oddities of summer seem to be over. 🙂
Sep
04
August 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps August 2016
The theme of this month’s post is a specific company, unfortunately. The questionable honour goes to SMTP.com, Inc.
Aug
11
Streamsend: ESP Spams for Its Own Marketing Department
Streamsend, the ESP service of ISP EZ Publishing, is sending bulk email to an email address that hasn’t been live since the 1990s. The email advertises EZ Publishing webhosting and development services.
Aug
03
July 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
Jul
19
June 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps June 2016
Long overdue – summer holidays and all that, but here we go.
Jun
08
May 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps May 2016
Just in time for M³AAWG 37 (Philadelphia, PA, Jun 13 to 16) – looking forward to meeting you all in person again!
May
07
April 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs (and only a word or two about Social Networks)
ESP mail seen in spamtraps April 2016
The percentage of ESP sent mail vs all mail seen in the spamtraps is back to normal levels, 1.5% this month. Social networks account for 3.9% of all mail, of which nearly 93% is Facebook. Facebook is “only” sending 2.5 times as much mail as all tracked ESPs combined, which would be a reduction of 30%… if it wasn’t the case that ESPs were sending more mail than last month, and Facebook was simply keeping up their old levels.
Mar
04
February 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
(And a word about some social networks)
ESP mail seen in spamtraps February 2016
Do remember to read this ’til the bitter end… it’s a tad longer than usual.
Let’s start the post that includes spam from MAAWG 36 week (hi y’all! great catching up with you!) with the standard stuff. Somewhere during the latter part of the month, we collated all of Oracle Marketing Cloud into one; no more separate Responsys, Eloqua and RightNow. Having said that, the contributions from the latter two are so small as to be practically meaningless.
The percentage of ESP sent mail vs all mail seen in the spamtraps is 1.5% this month.
Feb
29
Penton Media: Spamming a Scraped Contact Email Address
Penton Media, a marketing firm with a past history of sending opt-out bulk email (spam), is emailing bulk advertisements to the contact email address for my personal blog (tw86034@ergosphere.net). The ESP is the Oracle Marketing Cloud, which is the combination of former ESPs Eloqua and Responsys, both of which Oracle now owns.