Formula Jr
09-21-2006, 02:44 PM
I take the train a great deal. And I'm signed up for all the awards programs that Amtrak offers. I'll be getting some free trickets soon because of this participation. They send me email notifications once a month.
The funny part is that all these emails get routed to my junk folder automatically as spam. This is a typical analysis of an Amtrak email.
"Content preview: Amtrak Guest Rewards(R) [...]
Content analysis details: (6.9 points, 5.0 required)
pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
0.1 HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNKNOWN BODY: HTML font color is unknown to us
0.1 HTML_LINK_CLICK_HERE BODY: HTML link text says "click here"
0.1 HTML_FONTCOLOR_BLUE BODY: HTML font color is blue
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
0.8 HTML_COMMENT_SAVED_URL BODY: HTML message is a saved web page
0.1 HTML_TAG_EXISTS_TBODY BODY: HTML has "tbody" tag
0.2 HTML_50_60 BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML
3.0 BigEvilList_39 URI: Generated BigEvilList_39
0.0 CLICK_BELOW Asks you to click below
2.5 TM2_MISC_INVISI_FONT Very light text color
The original message was not completely plain text, and may be unsafe to
open with some email clients; in particular, it may contain a virus,
or confirm that your address can receive spam. If you wish to view
it, it may be safer to save it to a file and open it with an editor."
Nothing here is truly evil. Its a ligitimate business email.
What I find mildly amusing is that Amtrak is a big organization. It has thousands of employees and a huge budget.
Yet no one in this huge company has ever run their email's html through a spam filter to see if it gets flagged.
I mean, you would think that someone on their IT staff would have thought about this and tailored the emails to pass the filters. Its been this way for over three years.
Its just fun to think about this big company missing something so obvious.
The funny part is that all these emails get routed to my junk folder automatically as spam. This is a typical analysis of an Amtrak email.
"Content preview: Amtrak Guest Rewards(R) [...]
Content analysis details: (6.9 points, 5.0 required)
pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
0.1 HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNKNOWN BODY: HTML font color is unknown to us
0.1 HTML_LINK_CLICK_HERE BODY: HTML link text says "click here"
0.1 HTML_FONTCOLOR_BLUE BODY: HTML font color is blue
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
0.8 HTML_COMMENT_SAVED_URL BODY: HTML message is a saved web page
0.1 HTML_TAG_EXISTS_TBODY BODY: HTML has "tbody" tag
0.2 HTML_50_60 BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML
3.0 BigEvilList_39 URI: Generated BigEvilList_39
0.0 CLICK_BELOW Asks you to click below
2.5 TM2_MISC_INVISI_FONT Very light text color
The original message was not completely plain text, and may be unsafe to
open with some email clients; in particular, it may contain a virus,
or confirm that your address can receive spam. If you wish to view
it, it may be safer to save it to a file and open it with an editor."
Nothing here is truly evil. Its a ligitimate business email.
What I find mildly amusing is that Amtrak is a big organization. It has thousands of employees and a huge budget.
Yet no one in this huge company has ever run their email's html through a spam filter to see if it gets flagged.
I mean, you would think that someone on their IT staff would have thought about this and tailored the emails to pass the filters. Its been this way for over three years.
Its just fun to think about this big company missing something so obvious.