"dell email" from m0.net? Spam technique or real?

I'm getting emails from Dell, which by itself is sensible because I've asked
Dell to send me periodic savings coupons.

*But* within the HTML pages of the emails, *every link* is one to m0.net,
along with a long gogledy gook identification string indicating both me and
the particular link.

Normally I treat all things m0.net as spam. Is this too hasty?

Thanks!

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"Thomas G. Marshall" . com wrote in message news:Bgm5e.1074$1p4.448@trndny06...

I'm getting emails from Dell, which by itself is sensible because I've asked
Dell to send me periodic savings coupons.

*But* within the HTML pages of the emails, *every link* is one to m0.net,
along with a long gogledy gook identification string indicating both me and
the particular link.

Yes, Dell "deals" email *is* sent via m0.net and the links do go through
them. I've never bothered to investigate how the links work, but I have
assumed that they are usefull for tracking responses to the campaigns.

Normally I treat all things m0.net as spam. Is this too hasty?

Well m0.net handles at least some legitimate opt-in email campaigns,
so you run the risk of false positives.

FWIW... if you want to differentiate, note that the Dell adverts have
a Dell specific From address (dsb@... for small business, dhs@... for
home). The m0.net SMTP client rDNS is also Dell specific. If the
Dell email address subscription/management forms are smart enough
and your email provider supports it, you could also utilize a dell specific,
+ tagged email address. But the best way is to get an email account that
supports unlimited aliases/forwarding and hand out unique addresses to
each company or website you do business with. If you don't use a catch
all address only email to legit addresses will get through, if anyone leaks
an address to another party it will be easy to spot, if you ever need to
put a stop to some email you can simply delete the alias, and if you use
a descriptive alias scheme (websiteDell.com@, websiteAmazon.com@,
etc) you'll also have a list of all the sites you've given an email address to
and you'll know where to go if you ever need to make changes.

User N coughed up:
"Thomas G. Marshall"
. com wrote in
message news:Bgm5e.1074$1p4.448@trndny06...

I'm getting emails from Dell, which by itself is sensible because
I've asked Dell to send me periodic savings coupons.

*But* within the HTML pages of the emails, *every link* is one to
m0.net, along with a long gogledy gook identification string
indicating both me and the particular link.

Yes, Dell "deals" email *is* sent via m0.net and the links do go
through them. I've never bothered to investigate how the links work, but
I
have assumed that they are usefull for tracking responses to the
campaigns.

Normally I treat all things m0.net as spam. Is this too hasty?

Well m0.net handles at least some legitimate opt-in email campaigns,
so you run the risk of false positives.

FWIW... if you want to differentiate, note that the Dell adverts have
a Dell specific From address (dsb@... for small business, dhs@... for
home). The m0.net SMTP client rDNS is also Dell specific. If the
Dell email address subscription/management forms are smart enough
and your email provider supports it, you could also utilize a dell
specific, + tagged email address. But the best way is to get an
email account that supports unlimited aliases/forwarding and hand out
unique addresses to
each company or website you do business with. If you don't use a
catch all address only email to legit addresses will get through, if
anyone
leaks an address to another party it will be easy to spot, if you ever
need
to put a stop to some email you can simply delete the alias, and if you
use a descriptive alias scheme (websiteDell.com@, websiteAmazon.com@,
etc) you'll also have a list of all the sites you've given an email
address to and you'll know where to go if you ever need to make changes.

I just keep two email address. One for trusted correstpondence. And a
hotmail account for all things untrusted (online business, usenet, etc.)


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