If Vertical Response was up to any odd hyjinx, or their information was simply compromised, might that explain a sudden explosion of e-mail that includes my mailing address, full name, and other such things in the subject line?
My e-mail account was never super clean to begin with, just
that's a definite trend now in much of the spam I receive.
My mail filter is one of those exclusive dealies that only puts letters from the Safe List in the main folder, so I did have to fish out a valid letter from LL having to do with my land use. However, I'm either still not signed up for the news letter or it's perhaps being blocked at a different level.
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Stromko Perkins
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01-03-2004 01:18
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eltee Statosky
Luskie
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
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holiday spam bump
01-05-2004 08:06
don forget around christmas time (leadin though most of december really) theres always a bit of a push to get out as much spam as possible... if yer really concerned about that sort of thing.. its probably time to look into using disposable email addresses.... most of the big mail providers can do them now, and i've found if spam is THAT big an issue to you, its probably worth an extra $5 to $10 to ensure ya can go through addresses like candy
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Robin Linden
Linden Lifer
Join date: 25 Nov 2002
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01-05-2004 11:32
I need the actual email addresses they will be sending "From", as from the sample emails people have posted it looks like they change them every time. It would be nice if they kept something consistent. I don't have actual machine addresses, but VR says to scan for vresp.com or verticalresponse.com. While this might allow spammers pretending to be them to get through, so far that doesn't seem to have been an issue. _____________________
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si Money
The nice demon.
Join date: 21 May 2003
Posts: 477
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01-05-2004 17:57
Originally posted by Robin Linden I don't have actual machine addresses, but VR says to scan for vresp.com or verticalresponse.com. While this might allow spammers pretending to be them to get through, so far that doesn't seem to have been an issue. Hopefully I can whitelist on an address even if RBL'd. Is there any chance LL will be sending out a 'test' email or atleast a mass email soon so we can see how many users actually do receive them? I know I always get the ones sent directly from LL, but I don't believe i've ever received one of the 'newsletter' type emails. _____________________
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Phoenix Linden
SL's Angel of Death
Join date: 3 Dec 2002
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02-09-2004 11:20
A few weeks ago, I sprinkled the email addresses we give to VR with a few special email accounts used exclusively to detect abuse. Those accounts exclusively accumulated spam from the email provider, and not a single piece of external email other than the newsletter arrived.
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Beryl Greenacre
Big Scaredy-Baby
Join date: 24 Jun 2003
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02-09-2004 11:36
Originally posted by Phoenix Linden A few weeks ago, I sprinkled the email addresses we give to VR with a few special email accounts used exclusively to detect abuse. Those accounts exclusively accumulated spam from the email provider, and not a single piece of external email other than the newsletter arrived. My assessment is that VR almost certainly does not divulge email addresses. Pheonix is the Stealth Linden. I have first-hand knowledge of this. |
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si Money
The nice demon.
Join date: 21 May 2003
Posts: 477
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02-09-2004 14:36
Originally posted by Phoenix Linden A few weeks ago, I sprinkled the email addresses we give to VR with a few special email accounts used exclusively to detect abuse. Those accounts exclusively accumulated spam from the email provider, and not a single piece of external email other than the newsletter arrived. My assessment is that VR almost certainly does not divulge email addresses. Excellent. Unfortunately, i've already bounced enough email from them to where I don't get any more. Is there any way for you guys to fix this? I can't whitelist them until I can see where they're sending from (the 3 or so emails I bounced from them were all random From: addresses, none of them matched each other). _____________________
Like a soul without a mind
In a body without a heart I'm missing every part -- Progress -- Catherine Omega: Yes, but lots of stuff isn't listed. "Making UI harder to use than ever" and "removing all the necessary status icons" things.... there's nothing like that in the release notes. |
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Catherine Linden
SL Ballyhoo 24/7
Join date: 17 Sep 2003
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IP Addresses and From Headers
02-09-2004 16:10
I just heard back from Vertical Response and they've given us the following information:
1. the from header should be: [email]LindenLab@mail.vresp.com[/email] 2. the IP addresses that can be whitelisted include: Server Name IP Address mkt1.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.149 mkt2.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.150 mkt3.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.152 mkt4.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.137 mkt5.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.160 mkt6.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.161 mkt7.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.162 mkt8.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.163 mkt9.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.164 mkt10.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.165 mkt11.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.166 mkt12.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.167 mkt13.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.168 mkt14.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.169 mkt15.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.170 mkt16.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.171 mkt17.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.172 mkt18.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.173 mkt19.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.174 mkt20.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.175 mkt21.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.176 mkt22.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.177 mkt23.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.178 mkt24.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.179 mkt25.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.180 outbound.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.157 www2.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.139 www1.verticalresponse.com 65.60.34.130 a.mkt01.com 65.60.34.221 a.mkt02.com 65.60.34.222 a.mkt03.com 65.60.34.223 a.mkt04.com 65.60.34.224 a.mkt05.com 65.60.34.225 a.mkt06.com 65.60.34.226 a.mkt07.com 65.60.34.227 a.mkt08.com 65.60.34.228 b.mkt01.com 65.60.34.229 b.mkt02.com 65.60.34.230 b.mkt03.com 65.60.34.231 b.mkt04.com 65.60.34.232 b.mkt05.com 65.60.34.233 b.mkt06.com 65.60.34.234 b.mkt07.com 65.60.34.235 b.mkt08.com 65.60.34.236 c.mkt01.com 65.60.34.237 c.mkt02.com 65.60.34.238 c.mkt03.com 65.60.34.239 c.mkt04.com 65.60.34.240 c.mkt05.com 65.60.34.241 c.mkt06.com 65.60.34.242 c.mkt07.com 65.60.34.243 c.mkt08.com 65.60.34.244 _____________________
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si Money
The nice demon.
Join date: 21 May 2003
Posts: 477
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02-09-2004 17:37
Excellent, for those who use postfix and need a whitelist for it
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So how do we get email addresses re-added to the list? I haven't seen them attempt an email to me since the first couple bounces. _____________________
Like a soul without a mind
In a body without a heart I'm missing every part -- Progress -- Catherine Omega: Yes, but lots of stuff isn't listed. "Making UI harder to use than ever" and "removing all the necessary status icons" things.... there's nothing like that in the release notes. |
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Robin Linden
Linden Lifer
Join date: 25 Nov 2002
Posts: 1,224
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02-09-2004 18:02
We've discovered that many of the emails we send (e.g. confirmation mails) to Yahoo, AOL and Hotmail accounts get bounced to junk folders and overlooked.
So one option is to make sure that either you don't use a mail address with one of those ISPs, or that you check your junk mail folder before deleting. Also, please make sure that we have a current mail address for you. To do that, log in to your Account Summary page under Your Account, and choose Change Email. If it's current no problem. If not, then you can update it. _____________________
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si Money
The nice demon.
Join date: 21 May 2003
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02-09-2004 18:05
Originally posted by Robin Linden We've discovered that many of the emails we send (e.g. confirmation mails) to Yahoo, AOL and Hotmail accounts get bounced to junk folders and overlooked. So one option is to make sure that either you don't use a mail address with one of those ISPs, or that you check your junk mail folder before deleting. Also, please make sure that we have a current mail address for you. To do that, log in to your Account Summary page under Your Account, and choose Change Email. If it's current no problem. If not, then you can update it. No, I don't even see attempts coming in to the mail server, client folders aside. I run my own mail servers, so it seems they don't even attempt to send them anymore. My email address is correct. Mail server logs: CODE
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Like a soul without a mind
In a body without a heart I'm missing every part -- Progress -- Catherine Omega: Yes, but lots of stuff isn't listed. "Making UI harder to use than ever" and "removing all the necessary status icons" things.... there's nothing like that in the release notes. |