Topica

Topica is a mass email support company, providing bulk email services for many companies. Unfortunately, it supports both opt-in and opt-on bulk email. The latter is spam. Topica knows it is widely and massively blocklisted. It has even sent representatives into the major anti-spam fora to ask why Topica can't just have its opt-out operations blocklisted while leaving its opt-in operations unblocked. Most anti-spammers respond to this idea with little enthusiasm. Duh.

On January 12, 2004, I received two spams both coming directly from an IP claiming an rDNS name entry of "Topica.demarc.cogentco.com". I assume this is spam from Topica. Which I certainly never asked for, despite the blatant lie, repeated word for word in each of the two different spams, claiming I did. Following is a post on this spam made to news.admin.net-abuse.email regarding these two spam, apparently from Topica.         topica.demarc.cogentco.com. Can Spam from Topica?