[SpamCop-List] Re: XO spam (tradepointone,pinpointmoney,servingones etc. (dot)com) not CanSpam compliant

[Cat]

Berny wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> It just occurred to me that this spew originating within USA (straight up
> actually), received by servers within USA is in gross violation of CanSpam
> by not giving any visible means to unsubscribe.
> 
> (I get a blank message window in Yahoo, and no unsubscribe is visible in a
> plain text rendering , as I might see in "View Original Spam")
> 
> Now it could be that some of the image links might point to an unsub, but
> why should I
> 
> A) read the message while online,
> 
> B) Enable rendering/resolving foreign (not on my machine) links and images,
> 
> C) Enable HTML rendering at all? (which by the way wouldn't fix it for these
> items)
> 
> Now, unfortunuately I don't personally reside in the USA, so I can't do
> anything but surely there is a litigous person receiving this crap who is?
> Or someone who knows a prosecutor with time on his/her hands. (yeah right)
> 
> Registrants, sending hosts, DNS hosts, Spamvertized sites, ISP, all are USA
> based. (XO/Whoa.com)

Are you still getting this spam? I suspect they finally listwashed me 
over the past few days. I finally got a couple of human replies back 
from someone saying something like "we passed the complaint to our 
customer to take action against this spammer." Translation: "We know our 
customer is the spammer himself and had him listwash you, but we won't 
admit that to you."

Here are three addresses with the resolution team that should get a 
human response for you:

resolutionteam at support.xohost.com, monica.henderson at xo.com, 
jim.tobias at xo.com

Also a snippet of the e-mail from Monica Henderson:

"* The owner of the circuit has been contacted twice
   regarding unsolicited messaging coming from their
   XO circuit. Once previous to this escalation, and
   the 2nd time regarding it.

* A sampling of complaints / evidence has been
forwarded
   the owner of the company for their direct
   action.

* Both times the company has taken the appropriate
action
   according to our and their Terms of Service /
Acceptable
   Use Policy, and has indicated their willingness to
   enforce those policies in a responsible manner
with
   all their clients.

* Through this effort at an educational
solution/resolution
   to violations of the XO AUP, whereby the customer
and their
   clients online behavior would be modified to
comply with the
   AUP -- it may come to the point, within the next
week, where
   the modification/adherence proves to be too much
for both
   the customer and XO.

Please feel free to continue to send any complaints
regarding this issue to myself
monica.henderson at xo.com and also to Jim Tobias
jim.tobias at xo.com."