Last update: 14-Jul-2002 16:34 US Central Daylight Time.
A mirror of this page is also available with better bandwidth courtesy of Al Iverson at spamresource.com.
This is an account of what happened after an Internet user accidentally gave a wrong email address when she visited a web page and signed up for a sweepstakes. It is a story about how Internet email lists can go horribly wrong.
Consolidated Envelope Sender Reject Logs -- 2001 November
Consolidated Envelope Sender Reject Logs -- 2001 December
Consolidated Envelope Sender Reject Logs -- 2002 January
Consolidated Envelope Sender Reject Logs -- 2002 February
Consolidated Envelope Sender Reject Logs -- 2002 March
Consolidated Envelope Sender Reject Logs -- 2002 April
Consolidated Envelope Sender Reject Logs -- 2002 May
Consolidated Envelope Sender Reject Logs -- 2002 June
An essay on spam at Jonathan's Corner.
An Instructive Tale of Fictional Email Addresses at the Home of the Big Fool.
This harangue prepared and maintained by Michael Rathbun.
Frequent visitors may wish to check here before fossicking through the ever-lengthening narrative.
14-Jul-2002: For about three months, aside from the site being slashdotted, little has occurred that cannot be classified as Business As Usual (or "SOS/DD" in military parlance). As a result of the attention attracted by the slashdot, a number of clever people have gotten a kick out of signing up the various email addresses on this site for various kinds of spam. eDirectNetwork and its parent company naviant are back with a vengeance, making 20 delivery attempts per day or more.
At this point I have not seen any new spam to Nadine that is particularly worth my time to write about (or your time to read about), so only the statistics and reject summaries have been brought up to date and a few new envelope senders added to the list.
Some broken links have been fixed, thanks to notes from helpful readers, and some links to other interesting sites have been added.
18-Apr-2002: Update sendoutmail.com. Update Exactis, who are now infected with the itsImazing list.
16-Apr-2002: Add something new to the web scraper section. Add mention of optinat.com/.net and dealsuwant.com to the Spamming Scum section. Add emailfactory as a new Mediatrec outlet. Add directqlick.com.
06-Apr-2002: Add April 2002 reject logs. Update various "last heard from" and "still trying" data. Restructure the site: move the various sections of the narrative from the main page to subsidiary pages.
30-Mar-2002: Add rant on "targeted web 'harvesting'" occasioned by email from insurancemail.net. Add tinglobal.com, addmeat.com, jobsonline.com (emailoffersondemand, Toplander Corporation) and dartmail3.net. Some minor statistical and "last heard from" updates.
22-Mar-2002: More traffic from valoffers.com and Two-River.com. Home Shopping Network resumes sending. Add link to Virtumundo's lawsuit press release.
16-Mar-2002: Mediatrec dumps myz.com, begins sending their own stuff as mediatreclists.net.
15-Mar-2002: More optinservices.com/4optinonly.com stuff arrives. More Two-River.com stuff arrives. Add section for valoffers.com. Give mxsys.net its own rejection file.
10-Mar-2002: add optinservices.com and 4optinonly.com to the "Spamming Scum" section.
03-Mar-2002: Add March 2002 reject log to reference section. Add Bill Jones for California Governor.
27-Feb-2002: update sign2002.com and mxsys.net entries. Add exactis.
22-Feb-2002: I leave town for a couple of days, and suddenly find it necessary to add entries for a new itsImazing spewer (gossipflash.com), for a wonderful new content source in Boca Raton (sign2002.com) and for dandyoffers.com / mxsys.net spewing on behalf of memolink.com and dreammates.com. That'll teach me.
16-Feb-2002: Add Two-River.com (Harvest Marketing, GDTRFB.COM)
13-Feb-2002: Minor update for ProcessRequest.com
11-Feb-2002: Yet another envelope sender morph for em5000.
09-Feb-2002: Add a separate reject log for Mediatrec. Further traffic from NETWORK60.COM / RadioStakes.
04-Feb-2002: Add a new "Spamming Scum" section devoted to those ethical marketers who scrape email addresses from this page and opt them in to their opt-in lists. The gallery begins with J.C. Morris & Company, through gm20.com
02-Feb-2002: Add new em5000 identity, jdrmedia1.net.
01-Feb-2002: Another Harris Polls update: no answer doesn't mean a "NO" answer.
30-Jan-2002: Add NETWORK60.COM to the gallery of those now sending their own spew.
24-Jan-2002: Mediatrec delivers their first advertising payload
23-Jan-2002: New activity from Harris Polls.
21-Jan-2002: Add Mediatrec and DirectNet Advertising.
17-Jan-2002: Add new itsImazing spewer, PO-1.COM
15-Jan-2002: Update Postmaster General entry.
14-Jan-2002: Add optin-offers.net a new eDirectNetwork persona.
12-Jan-2002: update ixs2.net last-try date. Add eDirectNetwork reject summary page.
10-Jan-2002: Update TargitMail; add some META tags supplied by Dave Kinnaman.
09-Jan-2002: Scott Hirsch provides urgent news about breast augmentation surgery.
09-Jan-2002: Did Sears, Roebuck & Company really hire Scott Hirsch to spam Nadine?
08-Jan-2002: My thanks to Al Iverson who is providing a mirror site that has considerably more bandwidth to offer than the original has.
06-Jan-2002: Add offermail reject log. Update Home Shopping Network entry to note that they have apparently given up.
04-Jan-2002: Give good ol' DM360.com their own reject log extract page.
03-Jan-2002: More spam from eDirectNetwork (surprise!).
02-Jan-2002: Add Jan-2002 reject logs; update a few dates and number in body.
30-Dec-2001: Add Scott Hirsch (eDirectNetwork, offermail.net, edirect.com). Add "What's New?". Slight format changes, supposedly to improve readability. Update some "last received" dates and the envelope senders reference. Late in the day: include note about White House ZIP code.
