@Michele – reply? I can only imagine what you say

I get SEO spam all the time. Sometimes I report it. Sometime I reply. Sometimes I simply delete it.
It depends on my mood

Michele

Best one I ever got was from someone trying to convince me that my seo/imarketing/tech site was a good match for a site that sold goats milk. Yes goats milk. Needless to say I gave him a PR6 link straight away……

Received: from UnknownHost [220.225.248.xxx] by ms4.worldwebleaders.com with SMTP;

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506
X-Priority: 3
Importance: Normal
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

That’s a spam assassin score, which doesn’t tell you as much as you might like. The “normal” headers are the bits that you want

Michele

Possibly a little more elaborate:

0.1 RDNS_NONE Delivered to trusted network by a host with no rDNS
1.2 SPF_NEUTRAL SPF: sender does not match SPF record (neutral)
0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
1.7 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
0.0 MIME_BASE64_BLANKS RAW: Extra blank lines in base64 encoding
2.8 MIME_BASE64_TEXT RAW: Message text disguised using base64 encoding
0.0 FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTML Outlook can’t send HTML message only
4.2 FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook

If you check the headers you will probably find that the email was auto-generated using one of those stupid link swap / link building things.

I get hit with them all the time

Michele