Re: mailchip and negative points - new phish?

On 2026-01-21 at 11:04:12 UTC-0500 (Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:04:12 +0700)
Jimmy <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:

> Recently, paid email delivery services cannot be trusted anymore.

This is not a new development. It has been broadly true for the whole 
millennium. The only one I'd trust is AWeber because I've never seen 
spam identifiably from them and I've only ever been positively impressed 
by their staff's understanding of spam issues.

That is NOT an endorsement. I'm not a customer and it may be that they 
are not very good and so don't send enough spam for me to notice. Doing 
that for multiple decades would in itself be remarkable.


> On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 10:51 PM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I just got an email from (last name replaced by doe in case this is
>> legit:
>>
>>   From: Netcom <[email protected]>
>>
>> with new Ts&Cs and that my services are going to be migrated.  I'm 
>> not
>> in the UK and I'm not a netcom customer.  That makes it spam.  But it
>> looks okish, were I a customer.
>>
>> Further searching for this content to find a legit source was really
>> hard, so it feels like phish.  It arrived
>>   Received: from mail47.us4.mcsv.net (mail47.us4.mcsv.net
>> [205.201.128.47])...
>> and I've complained to mailchip.  That's all normal and it would not
>> cause mme to write.
>>
>> I'm writing because this spam got a ton of negative points: -5.9!
>> It seems that mailchimp in general, or this emitter, is registered as
>> only sending opt-in mail.  Which is pretty clearly not true.
>>
>> Has anyone else been seeing spam via mailchimp, that is wrongly 
>> getting
>> lots of negative points?
>>
>> I'll write to isipp.com support and see how that goes.
>>
>> -2.1 RCVD_IN_IADB_OPTIN     RBL: IADB: All mailing list mail is 
>> opt-in
>>                             [205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
>> -1.2 RCVD_IN_IADB_OPTIN_GT50 RBL: IADB: Opt-in used more than 50% of 
>> the
>>                             time
>>                             [205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
>> -0.4 RCVD_IN_IADB_LISTED    RBL: Participates in the IADB system
>>                             [205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
>> -2.2 RCVD_IN_IADB_VOUCHED   RBL: ISIPP IADB lists as vouched-for 
>> sender
>>                             [205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
>>
>>



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