FC: Is Spam Arrest resorting to... spamming?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[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]

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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:18:27 -0500
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
From: Neil Schwartzman <neil () peteMOSS com>
Subject: Spam Arrest Service begins spamming!
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I am aghast. Surprised, even, despite my cynicism regarding spamming. This 
is the height of arrogance, and have earned an inclusion of my spamflames 
website:

http://petemoss.com/spamflames/spamarrest.html

N.B. the petemoss () sympatico ca address has never given out; it is a pop 
account and nothing more.

Either they are dictionary attacking sympatico, or they may have data-mined 
the address.

In no case whatsoever were they given this address.

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Return-Path: <info () spamarrest com>
Received: from spamarrest.com ([66.150.163.172])
          by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net
          (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP
          id 
<20030213120202.GVXN6636.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net () spamarrest com>
          for <petemoss () sympatico ca>; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:02:02 -0500
Received: from [66.150.163.149] (HELO server1.spamarrest.com)
  by spamarrest.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.3)
  with ESMTP id 13855734 for petemoss () sympatico ca; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 
04:00:41 -0800
Message-ID: <11729172.1045137641675.JavaMail.daryn () server1 spamarrest com>
From: Spam Arrest <info () spamarrest com>
To: Neil Schwartzman <petemoss () sympatico ca>
Subject: ADV: Enjoy a spam-free inbox
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:00:41 -0800

You may remember recently sending an email to a Spam Arrest customer,
and receiving a response asking you to visit our website and type in
a word that was shown to you in a picture.


It was pretty easy, wasn't it?


Did you know that that one simple step stops virtually all spam from
entering our customers' inboxes?


You too can enjoy the benefits of a spam-free inbox.

We are so confident you'll like our product, that we'd like to offer
you a 30-Day free trial. If you are un-satisfied for any reason, just
cancel your account before the end of the trial and you'll pay nothing.



Click here to visit our website and start your trial:

http://spamarrest.com/affl?MUNGED


Spam Arrest
Take control of your inbox!


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You are receiving this email in response to an email you recently
sent to a Spam Arrest customer.

If you do not wish to receive further promotional emails from
Spam Arrest, please click the following link:

http://spamarrest.com/affl?MUNGED/optout/index.jsp

--
Neil Schwartzman - Editor & Publisher
Pete Moss Publications, Industry & Trade Journals
<http://spamNEWS.com><http://spamFLAMES.com><http://peteMOSS.com>
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