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Re: st: Is Spam Arrest legit?
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: Is Spam Arrest legit?
Date
Sun, 1 Sep 2013 18:41:54 +0100
Systems and stories differ; as said, my experience was of repeated
messages from the same person, who was not this "Paul".
Nick
[email protected]
On 1 September 2013 18:36, Richard Williams
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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