Spamarrest - spammers pretending to fight spam. But instead they flood mailboxes that never existed daily with confirmation requests, and even were caught spamming them for their services, too. spamarrest.com, spamarrest.net, spamarrest.org: Access denied [66.150.163.128 - 66.150.163.191]: Null routed! === Evidence 1 === Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsrout1.ntli.net!news.ntli.net!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Tony Roza" Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: C/R email from spamarrest.com sent to never used email addy Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:38:55 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <105gvp17h498e38@corp.supernews.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 50 Xref: uni-berlin.de news.admin.net-abuse.email:2178561 Anyone else seeing this... Spamarrest.com sent an C/R email to a never used address. Note the null return path to avoid bounces and the dev/null on the "errors-to" header. Note the "HELO m10" on 66.150.163.164. Odd for even a legit C/R system (assuming that such a thing exists). Affiliate links redacted. Is it time to dev/null Spamarrest PNAP-SEF-SPAM-DC-02 (NET-66-150-163-128-1) 66.150.163.128 - 66.150.163.191 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Return-Path: <> Received: (qmail 61198 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2004 15:43:48 -0000 Received: from m9.spamarrest.com (HELO spamarrest.com) (66.150.163.156) by with SMTP; 17 Mar 2004 15:43:48 -0000 Received: from [66.150.163.164] (HELO m10) by spamarrest.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP id 89067240 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:43:47 -0800 Message-ID: <.JavaMail.root@m10> From: @spamarrest.com> To: Subject: RE: Read this message (verification) In-reply-to: 20040317154220.@ Errors-to: nobody@spamarrest.com Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:43:47 -0800 This is an automated response from . To protect our inbox from unwanted bulk email, we are filtering the messages which we receive. Just this once, click the link below so I can receive your emails. You won't have to do this again. http://spamarrest.com/a2? Spam Arrest - Take control of your inbox! http://spamarrest.com/affl? ------------------------------------------------------------ You are receiving this message in response to your email to , a Spam Arrest customer. Webmasters help stop spam and make 50%. http://spamarrest.com/affl?/affiliates/index.jsp === Evidence 2 === Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed.mathworks.com!panix!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: Re: C/R email from spamarrest.com sent to never used email addy Date: 17 Mar 2004 11:53:04 -0500 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <105gvp17h498e38@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1079542384 12863 166.84.1.2 (17 Mar 2004 16:53:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Xref: uni-berlin.de news.admin.net-abuse.email:2178565 Tony Roza wrote: >Anyone else seeing this... Spamarrest.com sent an C/R email to a never used address. Sure, I see this all the time. What happens is that people send spam with your address as the return address. Just because it's never been used doesn't mean it's not on their lists. Then spamarrest bounces a challenge back to the "original sender" who happens to be you. Just nullroute everything from spamarrest. I get so many of these things it's just not worth the trouble to deal with it. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." === Evidence 3 === Path: uni-berlin.de!217.22.114.18!not-for-mail From: Dolphin Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: Re: C/R email from spamarrest.com sent to never used email addy Date: 17 Mar 2004 17:26:02 GMT Organization: Private person Lines: 40 Sender: Alexander Sheremet Message-ID: References: <105gvp17h498e38@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.22.114.18 X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1079544362 73187315 I 217.22.114.18 ([104765]) X-SPEWS: I am not X-ROT-13: fcnzgenc@dolphinwave.org X-newsgroup: news.admin.net-abuse.email X-PGP-key: 0xAAE2A579 X-PGP-key-fingerprint: 5B8E 3B28 7199 8CD3 4133 FA87 000B 0FB6 AAE2 A579 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: uni-berlin.de news.admin.net-abuse.email:2178582 #begin TonyRoza@hotmail.com.exe (or was it Tony Roza.com) message <105gvp17h498e38@corp.supernews.com> reply: > Anyone else seeing this... Spamarrest.com sent an C/R email to a never used address. > Note the null return path to avoid bounces and the dev/null on the "errors-to" header. > Note the "HELO m10" on 66.150.163.164. Odd for even a legit C/R system > (assuming that such a thing exists). Affiliate links redacted. > > Is it time to dev/null > Spamarrest PNAP-SEF-SPAM-DC-02 (NET-66-150-163-128-1) > 66.150.163.128 - 66.150.163.191 I was pondering it, myself. I already had them blocked as a part of my Internap block, can see lots of delivery attempts to addresses, that never existed - either some dictionary attack, or appending the common names with my domain name (well, one there does exist, one out of 5). Times are in GMT+0200: Mar 6 00:11:12 orca sendmail[10027]: i25MB9xX010027: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=, relay=m2.spamarrest.com [66.150.163.173], reject=553 5.3.0 ... E-mail from 66.150.163.173 refused using the DolphinWave.org local Block List - see Mar 6 06:20:25 arg1=, relay=m2.spamarrest.com Mar 8 02:01:35 arg1=, relay=m2.spamarrest.com Mar 8 02:02:58 arg1=, relay=m2.spamarrest.com Mar 13 00:10:22 arg1=, relay=m2.spamarrest.com Mar 14 21:03:42 arg1=, relay=m2.spamarrest.com Mar 16 02:14:00 arg1=, relay=m2.spamarrest.com Probably it's the time for null routing of 66.150.163.128/26. Dolphin. -- URL: http://www.DolphinWave.org Mail: on the web page (no spam) ICQ: 6615461 === Evidence 4 === Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed.news2me.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Tony Roza" Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: Re: C/R email from spamarrest.com sent to never used email addy Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:39:25 -0800 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <105hds3dj704f07@corp.supernews.com> References: <105gvp17h498e38@corp.supernews.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 23 Xref: uni-berlin.de news.admin.net-abuse.email:2178638 "Dolphin" wrote in message news:slrnc5h2fr.5fh.usenet-Mar+nanae@orca.dolphinwave.org... > #begin TonyRoza@hotmail.com.exe (or was it Tony Roza.com) > message <105gvp17h498e38@corp.supernews.com> reply: > > I was pondering it, myself. I already had them blocked as a part of my > Internap block, can see lots of delivery attempts to addresses, that > never existed - either some dictionary attack, or appending the common > names with my domain name (well, one there does exist, one out of 5). > Times are in GMT+0200: > Mar 14 21:03:42 arg1=, relay=m2.spamarrest.com Thanks for the confirmation. Mine was to "jerry" too. This is most likely a dictionary attack. A while back, spamarrest.com began spamming my mailing list "from" address. Apparently, some spamarrest.com users had whitelisted that particular from address which ususally collects autoreplies from vacation responders (etc). It was interesting to find it full of spamarrest.com spam. === Evidence 5 === === http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17754-2003Mar12 is mirrored as === === http://www.DolphinWave.org/spam/Spamarrest/A17754-2003Mar12.html === From: "yukio" Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email References: <105gvp17h498e38@corp.supernews.com> Subject: Re: C/R email from spamarrest.com sent to never used email addy Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:26:57 -0800 Lines: 34 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-ID: <4058a659_2@127.0.0.1> X-Authenticated-User: $$oeh_nahtp X-Comments: This message was posted through wrote in message news:105gvp17h498e38@corp.supernews.com... > Anyone else seeing this... Spamarrest.com sent an C/R email to a never used address. > Note the null return path to avoid bounces and the dev/null on the "errors-to" header. > Note the "HELO m10" on 66.150.163.164. Odd for even a legit C/R system > (assuming that such a thing exists). Affiliate links redacted. Interesting.... they did this last year - right about this time. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17754-2003Mar12 ".... Recently, a vendor of an anti-spam product was accused of spamming. Seattle-based Spam Arrest LLC is one of a handful of firms offering what some see as a promising new technology. When someone sends an e-mail to a user of Spam Arrest, he or she gets an automatically generated e-mail back asking to verify that the sender is a live person. After the sender confirms by identifying a word or picture on the screen, the original e-mail is allowed to get to its destination. This thwarts auto-generated e-mail. But the software also allows Spam Arrest to capture senders' e-mail addresses, and it recently sent them a solicitation for the Spam Arrest software. "It was a one-time mailing," said Spam Arrest chief executive Cameron Elliott. "We'll probably choose not to do this again." Ahhhh, that "p" word. ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- === What to do with Spamarrest === Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: Re: C/R email from spamarrest.com sent to never used email addy From: dk pfy References: <105gvp17h498e38@corp.supernews.com> <4058a659_2@127.0.0.1> Organization: a.f.p.k Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x11DB488D Date: 17 Mar 2004 23:27:55 GMT Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.242.21.10 X-Trace: 1079566075 dtext01.news.tele.dk 166 62.242.21.10:12704 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: uni-berlin.de news.admin.net-abuse.email:2178696 yukio wrote: > "It was a one-time mailing," said Spam Arrest chief executive Cameron > Elliott. "We'll probably choose not to do this again." Yeeerk. Those are the worst kind. The traitorous scum who pretend to fight the Good Fight, and yet do the exact opposite. Besides being downright dishonest and lacking all moral dignity, it makes the rest of us look bad. I'm *so* firewalling them here. -- dk pfy === Spamarrest WHOIS === $ jwhois spamarrest.com [Querying whois.internic.net] [Redirected to whois.opensrs.net] [Querying whois.opensrs.net] [whois.opensrs.net] Registrant: Spam Arrest, LLC 7683 SE 27th Street PMB 273 Mercer Island, WA 98040 US Domain name: SPAMARREST.COM Administrative Contact: Master, Domain domainmaster@globaldns.com 7683 SE 27th Street PMB 273 Mercer Island, WA 98040 US +1 206 374 2763 Fax: +1 206 374 2763 Technical Contact: Master, Domain domainmaster@globaldns.com 7683 SE 27th Street PMB 273 Mercer Island, WA 98040 US +1 206 374 2763 Fax: +1 206 374 2763 Registration Service Provider: Global DNS, LLC, domainmaster@globaldns.com 206-374-2763 Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC. Record last updated on 24-Nov-2003. Record expires on 24-Aug-2007. Record created on 24-Aug-2001. Domain servers in listed order: DNS1.SPAMARREST.COM 66.150.163.129 NS1.SEF.PNAP.NET 63.251.161.1 NS2.SEF.PNAP.NET 63.251.161.33 $ host spamarrest.com spamarrest.com has address 66.150.163.163 $ jwhois 66.150.163.163 [Querying whois.arin.net] [whois.arin.net] Internap Network Services PNAP-06-2001 (NET-66-150-0-0-1) 66.150.0.0 - 66.151.255.255 Spamarrest PNAP-SEF-SPAM-DC-02 (NET-66-150-163-128-1) 66.150.163.128 - 66.150.163.191 # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-03-17 19:15 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. $ jwhois spamarrest.net [Querying whois.internic.net] [Redirected to whois.opensrs.net] [Querying whois.opensrs.net] [whois.opensrs.net] Registrant: Global DNS, LLC 7683 SE 27th Street PMB 273 Mercer Island, WA 98040 US Domain name: SPAMARREST.NET Administrative Contact: Master, Domain domainmaster@globaldns.com 7683 SE 27th Street PMB 273 Mercer Island, WA 98040 US +1 206 374 2763 Fax: +1 206 374 2763 Technical Contact: Master, Domain domainmaster@globaldns.com 7683 SE 27th Street PMB 273 Mercer Island, WA 98040 US +1 206 374 2763 Fax: +1 206 374 2763 Registration Service Provider: Global DNS, LLC, domainmaster@globaldns.com 206-374-2763 Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC. Record last updated on 24-Nov-2003. Record expires on 24-Aug-2007. Record created on 24-Aug-2001. Domain servers in listed order: DNS1.SPAMARREST.COM 66.150.163.129 NS1.SEF.PNAP.NET 63.251.161.1 NS2.SEF.PNAP.NET 63.251.161.33 $ jwhois spamarrest.org [Querying whois.publicinterestregistry.net] [whois.publicinterestregistry.net] <...> Domain ID:D76397009-LROR Domain Name:SPAMARREST.ORG Created On:24-Aug-2001 23:37:27 UTC Last Updated On:22-Sep-2003 18:11:22 UTC Expiration Date:24-Aug-2006 23:37:27 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:R63-LROR Status:OK Registrant ID:16404612-NSI Registrant Name:GlobalDNS LLC Registrant Organization:GlobalDNS LLC Registrant Street1:3315 E. Russell Rd, PMB H-947 Registrant City:Las Vegas Registrant State/Province:NV Registrant Postal Code:89120 Registrant Country:US Registrant Email:brc@globaldns.com Admin ID:16404612-NSI Admin Name:GlobalDNS LLC Admin Organization:GlobalDNS LLC Admin Street1:3315 E. Russell Rd, PMB H-947 Admin City:Las Vegas Admin State/Province:NV Admin Postal Code:89120 Admin Country:US Admin Email:brc@globaldns.com Tech ID:5358805-NSI Tech Name:Network Solutions, Inc. Tech Organization:Network Solutions, Inc. Tech Street1:21355 Ridgetop Circle Tech Street2:** Tech City:Dulles Tech State/Province:VA Tech Postal Code:20166 Tech Country:US Tech Email:customerservice@networksolutions.com Name Server:NS1.SEF.PNAP.NET Name Server:NS2.SEF.PNAP.NET Name Server:DNS1.SPAMARREST.COM === What SpamArrest says about these bogus requests === Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: k5vg@k5vg.com (John Thomason) Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email Subject: Re: CBL Listing Date: 19 Jul 2004 08:54:08 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 45 Message-ID: <72835bb3.0407190754.726ab018@posting.google.com> References: <9401f534.0407190205.1b4745f4@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.142.107.252 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1090252448 764 127.0.0.1 (19 Jul 2004 15:54:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:54:08 +0000 (UTC) Xref: uni-berlin.de news.admin.net-abuse.email:2224443 "CBL Team (Andrew)" wrote in message news:... > On 2004-07-19, Dave wrote: > > Hi, I have been trying to find out why our mail servers keep getting > > added to CBLs lists. > > > > They say that : "sending email in such a way as to indicate that the > > IP itself was infected with a virus, or (less likely) spam trojan, or > > is running an open http or socks proxy. Either that, or it's a NAT > > firewall in front of a machine that is infected." > > > > I know I don't have any virus or trojan. I don't have a NAT firewall. > > I don't have open mail relays. > > I'll bet you a substantial sum that you really do have a virus, probably > one of the Netsky variants. > > This "I don't have a virus" comment is _the most common_ response from > CBL listees when we send them the above boilerplate response, and so far > (out of hundreds of listees) either they've subsequently told us that yes, > they found a virus, or we've been able to locate a virus sample in received > mail. Unfortunately, we don't have the disk space to store all of the > millions of virus mails we get daily for very long, and in some cases they > may not get stored at all, so we can't just produce a virus sample on > demand. > > (The most amusing "I don't have a virus" was the guy who said he had an > all-Linux network and ran Postfix on his mailserver. We showed him samples > of Netsky received direct from his IP (not through his mailserver) - I don't > think he ever got back to us with an explanation, though my bet would be a > NAT gateway and someone plugging in a Windows laptop.) At least CBL checks out the situation first. There are plenty of sites who do no checking at all, and who go only by the envelope From: address to determine the "origin" of Netsky- generated emails. I, too, send out the amusing "I don't have a virus, I have an all-linux network, I'm running Postfix" responses when I receive Netsky complaints or bounced "virus warnings." What's *really* amusing, though, are the brain-dead responses I get from these sites when I ask them to stop sending the annoying, bogus complaints and warnings. SpamArrest comes to mind. I wonder if they've gotten a clue yet. Their last response to me was along the lines of "we'll stop when you stop sending our customers viruses" or something brilliant like that. === Another message across === === http://www.politechbot.com/p-04455.html === === Mirrored: http://www.DolphinWave.org/spam/Spamarrest/p-04455.html === Spam Arrest does appear to be resorting to... spamming * Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:03:49 -0500 * To: politech@politechbot.com * Subject: FC: Spam Arrest does appear to be resorting to... spamming * From: Declan McCullagh * Cc: support@spamarrest.com, pr@spamarrest.com Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04454.html --- From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" To: Subject: Re: Is Spam Arrest resorting to... spamming? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 20:04:10 +0530 On Thursday, February 13, 2003 7:06 PM [GMT+0530=IST], Declan McCullagh wrote: > [Neil has been a reliable contributor to Politech for a while on the > topic of spam. But naturally I will give Spam Arrest the right of > reply, and forward unedited any response they choose to provide. > --Declan] More than one person has reported receiving this - spamarrest has apparently sent this letter to _anybody_ who sent mail to a spamarrest customer. This repurposing of addresses is blatant optout spam ... none of the people who sent mail to a spamarrest subscriber should be expected to receive solicitations from spamarrest. For what its worth, I was blocking spamarrest's IP as an open relay (running an antiquated version of CommuniGate Pro) which had relayed spam to our users, since the past several weeks. So, none of my users will have got this solicitation from them. srs --- rom: Amos Satterlee To: "'declan@well.com'" Subject: RE: Is Spam Arrest resorting to... spamming? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:00:40 -0500 Yeah, I got one, too. Addressed to our Sys Admin account, which is only a receive account. Funny thing is that they didn't send one to my person account. Definitely dictionary spam. Amos --- From: David Bolduc To: "'declan@well.com'" Subject: RE: Is Spam Arrest resorting to... spamming? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:22:34 -0600 Me too. I have *no* recollection of having sent an email to a SpamArrest customer, or of visiting the SpamArrest site. --- From: "Brian Durham" To: Subject: Re: Is Spam Arrest resorting to... spamming? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:15:11 -0600 Declan: I received that email from Spam Arrest Wednesday - same circumstances. Best, Brian Durham --- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:24:17 -0600 From: Kenneth Loafman To: declan@well.com Cc: politech@politechbot.com, support@spamarrest.com, pr@spamarrest.com Subject: Re: FC: Is Spam Arrest resorting to... spamming? As a matter of fact they are spamming. I got one in the mail this morning. I do remember responding to a SpamArrest customer, but that does not give SpamArrest itself permission to contact me. Promptly reported to SpamCop. ...Ken --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- === SpamArrest replies, defends its right to spam === === http://www.politechbot.com/p-04457.html === === Mirrored: http://www.DolphinWave.org/spam/Spamarrest/p-04457.html === SpamArrest replies to Politech, defends its right to spam * Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:09:59 -0500 * To: politech@politechbot.com * Subject: FC: SpamArrest replies to Politech, defends its right to spam * From: Declan McCullagh * Cc: daryn@spamarrest.com I thank SpamArrest for replying, but the problem with SpamArrest's argument is this: People who want to send mail to their customers must type in a keyword to verify that they're human and not a spambot. But nowhere on that page does SpamArrest admit that if you do it, you'll be getting spammed yourself. Even after you type in the word, there is no such notice, and I couldn't find a clear and unambiguous mention in the privacy policy. Here's an example of the sender-verification scheme: http://spamarrest.com/a?68689800:53525 What SpamArrest is doing is similar to Microsoft spamming everyone who ever sent mail to your hotmail.com account, or AOL spamming everyone who emailed an aol.com account, and so on. But it's even worse because SpamArrest -- as a purported anti-spam service whose website warns users of the "exponentially increasing problem of spam" -- should know better. Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04455.html -Declan --- From: "Daryn Nakhuda" To: Subject: Re: Spam Arrest does appear to be resorting to... spamming Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:36:16 -0800 Declan - I'm not going to attempt to justify our marketing efforts with you; However I do want to provide you with the following facts to debunk some of the rumors I've seen. 1. Every person who got this email from us has either sent an email to one of our customers, or been added to one of our customer's whitelist explicitly. There was no dictionary attack. 2. We complied with both our own privacy policy, as well as industry-accepted rules for sending email; such as 1. a valid return address, 2. a functioning opt-out link, and 3. a clear subject line including the advertising prefix "ADV:", which people who have spam filters can look for and filter. 3. Our privacy policy is at http://spamarrest.com/privacy.jsp . You can click the link and read it without any fear (in regards to Bill Ries-Knight's warning). We do not use any stealthy means of capturing your email address; you have to type in it, or send an email to one of our customers. 4. We are a legitimate spam prevention service. Our website is not a false front for a spamming business. Our customers prefer our sender-based verification model to other content-filtering methods, and find our service very successful in stopping the junk from entering their inbox. 5. I know people fear the opt-out link, but I want to reassure you and your readers that clicking on this link is 1. safe, and 2. the only sure way to remove your address from receiving future spam arrest promotions. Thanks, Daryn Spam Arrest ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? 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