Is Spam Arrest Resorting to... Spamming?
Declam McCullough,
PoliTechBot,
Feb 13, 2003
SpamArrest seems like such a cool service. If you send an email to someone using SpamArrent, it directs you to a page (that looks like this) and asks that you type in a word to prove that you're human, and not an automatic emailling program. I was going to list this last week. But it's just as well that I didn't. It turns out that SpamArrest - get ready for it - collects the email addresses of people sending mail verified by the service and sends them spam. At no point either before or after you confirm does SpamArrest indicate that the consequence of your action will be more spam. The operators of SpamArrest reply here but their protestations are a feeble defense of what is, in my view, a detestable business model. If you use SpamArrest, you should remove it immediately; I, for one, will not accept the additional spam as the price of sending you an email message.
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