> How do they know that you can be trusted, and aren't just another spammer/phisher? That's not it, not all of the time anyway. Over the summer I discovered a

> How do they know that you can be trusted, and aren't just another spammer/phisher? That's not it, not all of the time anyway. Over the summer I discovered a third party mail server with a missing DNS entry. It was like that for months and all their mail was getting flagged as spam. I sent them an email (from an account that wasn't flagging their mail as spam) pointing it out. They fixed it within 24 hours but I never got a single reply.