eno2001's Journal: SPAM: What's in a Name?

So here I am minding my own business when a co-worker asks me to make sure that an important message comes through from a specific sender (cvent-planner.com). I figure... sure. Why not. I white list IP addresses for domains all the time when it comes to legit stuff. So I do a search in our spam filtering system and find the blocked message so I can force delivery to said co-worker. But then I notice that the reason it was blocked is that according to one of the blacklists that the filter uses (could be the spam filter vendor for all I know) cvent.com (AKA cvent-planner.com) is a known spammer.
 
So, to be sure I did a little googling and found a link to someones blog
  wherein he explains why he thinks they're a spammer. I tend to agree since any business that buys names and e-mail addresses from other sources to start sending out bulk mail to them, is by my own understanding a spammer. A little more looking around indicates that this company has no real "opt out" empowerment for the recipient of their crap. Even more digging indicates that the people who started getting messages from cvent.com never signed up for anything with them and that the companies that cvent claims to have legitimately acquired the addresses from know nothing about cvent.com. So either cvent is lying, or the companies that the recipients had previous business with are lying.
 
As a result, I removed the IP white list that I'd added only minutes earlier and suggested to my co-worker that I do a "per-user" white list for her and one other associate so they can get the cvnet.com stuff but not the rest of the organization. My main reason for posting this here is to get the blogger's site that I linked to above raised higher in the google page rankings. So one more time: Cvent is a spammer!!!!
 
I almost forgot to mention that cvent appears to be somewhat aware of their status. This is a modified version of the message they sent to the people they are attempting to spam:
 
**Attention [insert vendor] conference attendees**
The conference documentation links were sent out at the end of August and again in early September. If you have not received either of these emails, they may be getting blocked.
 
Please have your IT staff or email provider add the following domain to the allowed list:
  cvent-planner.com
 
Yeah. Right. Nice try.

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[eno2001]

Glad to see there's still life in the old girl. ;) What's the haps? Thanks for the tip. I had no idea. Glad to know some people have enough lack of a life that you'd know something like that.

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[eno2001]

Bzzt. Try again. I do know what a robots.txt file is. But why should I know or care that Slashdot would apply it to journals? (Psst... keep this up, it's damn funny!)

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[Red_Foreman]

(Psst... keep this up, it's damn funny!)

And another person becomes enlightened. Welcome.

You really should ignore AC trolls, especially ones that have a little Red in them.

SMOOCHIES~!

Red

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[eno2001]

Why do you think I pay attention to trolls. It's fun. Especially when I don't give a rat's ass. Even a red one. ;)