Re: st: Is Spam Arrest legit?

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

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
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 1 September 2013 15:55, Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu> 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
>> <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com> 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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