Spam Arrest and Blacklists
© Copyright Frank D. Kanu 2000-2008
Do you use them? I know of many big ISPs like AOL and Verizon, but also Gmail that have ended up on blacklists. My fuzz with blacklists is the amount of wrongly blocked addresses and how easy it is to get something blocked while at the same time taking ages to remove a block. That’s like shooting the mailman—because he might bring you spam.
And spam arrest—are you going ahead and fill that out—when the other person is someone you are in contact with for weeks or months? And isn’t it true that many spammers employ extreme low wage employees to fill out those spam arrests?
Let’s face it: Spam is a problem but blacklisting or spam arrest do not fix the problem; they actually add more complications.
SpamAssassin and some rules of the e-mail software help me to weed spam fast.
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Do you use them? I know of many big ISPs like AOL and Verizon, but also Gmail that have ended up on blacklists. My fuzz with blacklists is the amount of wrongly blocked addresses and how easy it is to get something blocked while at the same time taking ages to remove a block. That’s like shooting the mailman—because he might bring you spam.
And spam arrest—are you going ahead and fill that out—when the other person is someone you are in contact with for weeks or months? And isn’t it true that many spammers employ extreme low wage employees to fill out those spam arrests?
Let’s face it: Spam is a problem but blacklisting or spam arrest do not fix the problem; they actually add more complications.
SpamAssassin and some rules of the e-mail software help me to weed spam fast.
But I am not using Outlook for e-mail. Are you?
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10:58 on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Spam Arrests technology easily stops multiple authorizations of low wage or even the future computer program that can figure out our captchas.
If a customer sends an email using our SMTP servers those email addresses are automatically added to the approved sender list and are not required to do anything.
While I understand you may not like our approach it’s the only one that works and will work in the future. (see How Spam Arrest Works)
Brian Cartmell, CEO
Spam Arrest LLC
11:41 on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
On what basis are decisions made? How are decisions about spam reviewed and by whom? Isn’t reviewing mails to filter non-spam not the same as getting spam?
What steps are taken to ensure that legitimate mail as determined by your customer is allowed through?
I know headhunters and HR personal have removed applicants that use Spam Arrest from their lists - because they considered Spam Arrest as a new form of spam.
16:49 on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
“it’s the only one that works and will work in the future”
That statement will not convince me to become a customer of yours. The only way I could imagine you would know why it is working in the future is that you spam yourself. Do you really want me to think that?
Actually that answers itself - I took the time to Google and found this:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-04454.html
or http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=216210
or http://www.virtualpromote.com/gazette/issue-202/1053114704.html
21:01 on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
And that Brian never replied to Cecilia’s or my answer speaks for itself, wouldn’t you agree?