OK. I’ve been running a test where I’ve been attempting to gather Viagra spam into a Gmail mailbox, viagraspamtest@gmail.com
I started the test in mid-May, posting the email address to questionable and shady mailing lists, as well as linking the address in plain text on my blog.
And 6 weeks in, how is it going? Well…it’s not. […]
My buddy Kevin saw my previous post on training Gmail to deliver only Viagra spam, as well as the part about how Pfizer must handle their spam filtering.
Being an enterprising person, he emailed Pfizer. Here’s their reply:
From: pfizer@pfizer.com
Date: April 15, 2008 12:53:23 PM EDT
To: EMAIL
Subject: RE:Email Validation
This email is sent by the Pfizer server. In […]