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FC: Spam Arrest does appear to be resorting to... spamming
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:03:49 -0500
Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-04454.html --- From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh () hserus net> To: <declan () well com> 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 <declan () well com> 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 <asatterlee () inta org> To: "'declan () well com'" <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 <dbolduc () aus scmplaw com> To: "'declan () well com'" <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" <briandurham () mindspring com> To: <declan () well com> 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 <loafman () spamcop net> 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.
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