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I listened in on a webinar from ReturnPath today. They’re a great company who help others get their email out. Not in the same way as we do at Bronto, they focus more on helping companies deal with deliverability problems, renderability, and more (well we do that too, but that’s their specialty). One good thing that came out of it was a good summary of reputation tracking sources. Most of this wasn’t news, but it was the impetus I needed to throw a few of them up here for those out there who haven’t investigated their rep. This is really only useful to those of you who send email on a corporate level, but it’s still interesting to see how your doing…

SenderScore.org - this is ReturnPath’s own tool. They couple it with some services to help improve and maintain your reputation, but it also serves as a good resource to monitor your overall score.
Postmaster.live.com - Microsoft’s Postmaster site, a lot of good info here, especially check out their Smart Network Data Services (SNDS).
DNSStuff.com - They have a lot resources around DNS lookups, SPAM DB, Reverse DNS and more. Very techy.
Senderbase.org - This is IronPorts network, Ironport sells spam filters that work together collectively filter spam. This network harnesses the knowledge of that network, but I’m not sure that you can really get much of value for your own reporting aside from whether you are on any real time black lists.
cbl.abuseat.org/ - This is a composite black list site, you can use this to see if any of your IPs are currently on their list. BTW, this is by far the least profesional of the sites. I defintely spotted blinking red text on their page. What the hell is that?!
SpamCop - This is network that maintains blacklists, much of the list used to be comprised from spamtrap email addresses, though now I believe they get a lot more out of reported spam as well.

Spam is something I have to think about a lot. Well, we all think about it, it’s always there. But I think about it a lot more than just when I check my inbox, I spend a good bit of time every day ensuring that my customers aren’t doing it. It’s not that they’re spammers, they just don’t always know the best way to get email marketing done.

But enough about that, let’s get to the goods. For those of you out there who are sick of spam you may find some release in watching this video. This guy has set up a computer, printer, and shredder to receive, print, and shred spam all day long. It looks like it would be quite satisfying, although it is a waste of paper (he does recycle!)

Check out the whole story and explanation of setup, more video at the site: Spamtrap | billshackelford.com