Spam Arrest -- Is spam help only $20 away?

I just sent an e-mail to a member of my stamp club and immediately got an
e-mail from a company called Spam Arrest asking me to verify that I'm not a
spammer. Basically, the software requires a human to respond and type in a
code word. From that point on, any e-mail from you to that particular e-mail
address will go through.

Have any of you used Spam Arrest? It seems like a great idea, requiring
nothing but money, and not much at that -- $20 for six months, and cheaper
than that for longer periods. There's a cute animated demo on their website,
http://spamarrest.com. I'm thinking of a trial, and I've asked the club
member about his experience to date. I don't know how long he's been using
it.

Bob

Bob Ingraham wrote in message ...
I just sent an e-mail to a member of my stamp club and immediately got an
e-mail from a company called Spam Arrest asking me to verify that I'm not a
spammer. Basically, the software requires a human to respond and type in a
code word. From that point on, any e-mail from you to that particular e-mail
address will go through.

Have any of you used Spam Arrest? It seems like a great idea, requiring
nothing but money, and not much at that -- $20 for six months, and cheaper
than that for longer periods. There's a cute animated demo on their website,
http://spamarrest.com. I'm thinking of a trial, and I've asked the club
member about his experience to date. I don't know how long he's been using
it.

Bob

Hi Bob

There's a company in Australia providing email services and they added
a spam removing service.

Last week they announced they are stopping this service due to
retaliation by the spammers.

If I manage to find that article, I will let you know.

Francis

On 14 Oct 2003 03:27:37 -0700, (Francis C)
wrote:

Bob Ingraham wrote in message ...
I just sent an e-mail to a member of my stamp club and immediately got an
e-mail from a company called Spam Arrest asking me to verify that I'm not a
spammer. Basically, the software requires a human to respond and type in a
code word. From that point on, any e-mail from you to that particular e-mail
address will go through.

Have any of you used Spam Arrest? It seems like a great idea, requiring
nothing but money, and not much at that -- $20 for six months, and cheaper
than that for longer periods. There's a cute animated demo on their website,
http://spamarrest.com. I'm thinking of a trial, and I've asked the club
member about his experience to date. I don't know how long he's been using
it.

Bob

Hi Bob

There's a company in Australia providing email services and they added
a spam removing service.

Last week they announced they are stopping this service due to
retaliation by the spammers.

If I manage to find that article, I will let you know.

I can see the spammers ganging up to try a DOS (plugging the
mailboxes) of the company. Typical spammer scum. Sheesh...

Tracy Barber

Bob Ingraham wrote:
I just sent an e-mail to a member of my stamp club and immediately got an
e-mail from a company called Spam Arrest asking me to verify that I'm not a
spammer. Basically, the software requires a human to respond and type in a
code word. From that point on, any e-mail from you to that particular e-mail
address will go through.

Have any of you used Spam Arrest? It seems like a great idea, requiring
nothing but money, and not much at that -- $20 for six months, and cheaper
than that for longer periods. There's a cute animated demo on their website,
http://spamarrest.com. I'm thinking of a trial, and I've asked the club
member about his experience to date. I don't know how long he's been using
it.

Bob

If you use Ebay, Paypal or many other services that send you email that
you really want, they will generally not want to bother with this and
not respond to such messages. Hopefully Spam Arrest has a whitelist
feature to let their messages through.

= Eric

I encountered this program one time while trying to contact a friend.
Unfortunately my main e-mail account is text-only - no graphics, no
attachments = no virus danger. There was also no way of getting through the
SpamArrest hoops.

Eventually I forwarded the SpamArrest message to my secondary e-mail, which
I use only when I actually WANT to look at an attachment, and replying from
the secondary account to the message sent to the primary account actually
cleared me as a user from the primary account. But it was a major pain in
the neck . I don't suppose many people are still using text-only e-mail, but
I love the security it gives me, and I was very frustrated by the SpamArrest
procedure. OTOH, spam really is totally out of control, and maybe people
have to resort to such things to keep e-mail usable. Sad. Incidentally I am
replying to this message from my secondary e-mail account because the
text-only account has no way of fiddling return addresses, so replying to a
ng from there means hundreds of spams. To reply replace the period with a
dot.

Ada

"Bob Ingraham" wrote in message
...
I just sent an e-mail to a member of my stamp club and immediately got an
e-mail from a company called Spam Arrest asking me to verify that I'm not
a
spammer. Basically, the software requires a human to respond and type in a
code word. From that point on, any e-mail from you to that particular
e-mail
address will go through.

Have any of you used Spam Arrest? It seems like a great idea, requiring
nothing but money, and not much at that -- $20 for six months, and cheaper
than that for longer periods. There's a cute animated demo on their
website,
http://spamarrest.com. I'm thinking of a trial, and I've asked the club
member about his experience to date. I don't know how long he's been using
it.

Bob