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Re: st: Is Spam Arrest legit?
From
Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Is Spam Arrest legit?
Date
Sun, 1 Sep 2013 13:36:06 -0400
Once you comply you are supposed to not get these messages anymore. But if you don't want to comply, your only option may be to set up a spam filter to get rid of these messages permanently. Besides being annoying, these messages are a little scary because, for all you know, they might themselves be clever traps to make you click on something you shouldn't.
Sent from my iPad
On Sep 1, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I used to get repeated messages from one person of this kind. The
> request (instruction?) was in effect to send every posting I sent to
> Statalist twice, once sending the original to everybody and once
> individually to confirm to this person that I was not a spammer.
>
> As I recollect, I wrote directly to that person explaining why I would
> not do that, and _that_ mail was bounced back with the same request.
>
> The upside is that these events, so far, appear unusual.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 1 September 2013 15:55, Marcello Pagano <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The other option is for Richard Williams to forward me that message he got
>> from "Paul"s in the future. Such messages could be viewed as annoying, at
>> least, and we don't want that to happen to our posters.
>>
>> m.p.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/1/2013 10:48 AM, William Buchanan wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Rick,
>>>
>>> I use Postini for my email accounts. There have been a few times where an
>>> email or two from the Statalist has been snagged by it, but Paul should be
>>> able to add the Statalist to an approved sender list through his service
>>> provider.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Billy
>>> On Sep 1, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Richard Williams
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Slightly off topic here, but I've sent two messages to Statalist today
>>>> and both times I have received a message from "Paul" which says in part
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> You are receiving this message in response to your email to Paul, a Spam
>>>> Arrest customer.
>>>>
>>>> Spam Arrest requests that senders verify themselves before their email is
>>>> delivered.
>>>>
>>>> When you click the above link, you will be taken to a page with a graphic
>>>> on it. Simply read the word in the graphic, type it into the form, accept
>>>> the Sender Agreement, and you're verified.
>>>>
>>>> You have to do this only once per Spam Arrest customer.
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing this is legit, but does anyone know for sure? It would be a
>>>> bit of a pain if everyone on a list started using this service, and I really
>>>> don't care that much if "Paul", whoever he is, gets my messages or not. But
>>>> I'll do it so long as i am not secretly infecting my computer with a virus.
>>>> (Plus I have this feeling I am going to get these annoying messages every
>>>> time I post to Statalist until I give in and do what it wants.)
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