The idiots using Spam Arrest
Saturday, April 1st, 2006 | Life
If you don’t know, Spam Arrest means that whenever you email someone using it, Spam Arrest send you an email and you have to click a verification link before the original email is actually sent on to who it was originally supposed to reach.
It’s a system I have always felt is stupid. You probably loose a lot of email that way. I’m not sure how much spam it keeps out but I doubt the rates are really any better than such things as SpamNet which catches virtually all of my spam and with hardly any false positives – every time someone doesn’t click the Spam Arrest validation link, that’s a false positive. I bet that is a lot.
Anyway, so I have just got an email saying I need to click the confirmation link for an email automatically sent by my web server to confirm someone’s forum registration. I’m not going to do that. I don’t want them blocking my emails. If they want to register on that forum they can use an email address that can actually receive email. They look like spammers themselves anyway. Do they honestly expect people to confirm these validation requests for auto-generated emails?
If you don’t know, Spam Arrest means that whenever you email someone using it, Spam Arrest send you an email and you have to click a verification link before the original email is actually sent on to who it was originally supposed to reach.
It’s a system I have always felt is stupid. You probably loose a lot of email that way. I’m not sure how much spam it keeps out but I doubt the rates are really any better than such things as SpamNet which catches virtually all of my spam and with hardly any false positives – every time someone doesn’t click the Spam Arrest validation link, that’s a false positive. I bet that is a lot.
Anyway, so I have just got an email saying I need to click the confirmation link for an email automatically sent by my web server to confirm someone’s forum registration. I’m not going to do that. I don’t want them blocking my emails. If they want to register on that forum they can use an email address that can actually receive email. They look like spammers themselves anyway. Do they honestly expect people to confirm these validation requests for auto-generated emails?