Dec
06

A Whine About Winetasting.com

Winetasting.com sounds like a really interesting website. It’s a shame that the first time I have heard of them appears to be because they sent me spam. That is pretty uncool; I like wine and buy it every now and again. But I won’t buy anything from anybody who sends me spam. How did they come to have my email address? I suspect the purchased a list. This address was one that I used on some other online store a couple of years ago. The ESP in this case is Cheetahmail.

Source IP: 63.236.77.33

Return-Path: <x-x@b.email.winetasting.com>
Received: from mta835.e.ambrosia.com (mta835.e.ambrosia.com. [63.236.77.33])
       by mx.google.com with ESMTP id x;
       Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:xx:xx -0800 (PST)
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 xx:xx:xx -0000
Message-ID: <x.x.x@x.email.winetasting.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:rm-0x@email.winetasting.com>
From: "Winetasting.com" <winetasting@email.winetasting.com>
To: x@x.x
Subject: Save 30% on Chris’ Latest Pick from Corley Family Winery
MIME-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: "Winetasting.com" <support-x@email.winetasting.com>
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=x"

One Response to A Whine About Winetasting.com

  1. SpamBouncer
    December 7, 2011 at 1:51 am

    This intrigued me, so I took a moment off of writing for ${DAYJOB} and searched my spamtraps. Nothing. I suspect you’re right that this was a purchased list, but it was likely a fairly carefully targeted and well cleaned list.

    Which in no way makes it more acceptable than a Millionez CD, of course. :/ Something that ESPs need to keep in mind is that spam hits from well targeted, clean lists often feels like a bang on the funnybone to recipients with good spam filters. Spam that shows up in the folder where I expected to hear only from personal contacts is really infuriating because I go to such efforts to avoid being spammed.

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