A Guide to Spam Traps and How to Avoid Them

A Guide to Spam Traps and How to Avoid Them(litmus.com)

13 points by r0h1n 10 years ago | 7 comments

TL;DR: Don't send email to people unless they specifically solicit email from you and confirm their identity.

I.e., don't send unsolicited email.

I.e., don't send spam.

Gustomaximus 10 years ago | |

The more interesting for me was Recycled Traps. Often you want to reactivate old users and companies have legitimate reason/access to do so. This part is the more grey area and interesting to see the ISP inactivity rules.

darkarmani 10 years ago | | |

> This part is the more grey area and interesting to see the ISP inactivity rules.

How is it a gray area? The ISP is telling you to stop sending to the address by using hard bounces. If you continue to send to it, you are spamming.

muppetman 10 years ago |

I just signed up for their newsletter from a few spamtraps. I'm a nice person.

askldfhjkasfhd 10 years ago | |

Unless you have access to those spamtraps to complete the opt-in, I doubt they will actually be subscribed.