spamarrest.com and mailing list subscriptions

[Adam Roach <adam at nostrum.com>]

This is ridiculous and could get out of hand very quickly. I shudder to 
think what would happen if even 5% of the subscribers to a mailing list 
sent this kind of dreck in response to every email posted to the list -- 
it would effectively become infeasible to participate in mailing lists 
at all.

Unfortunately, I can't think of an approach to prevent this silliness 
aside from automatically unsubscribing any "spamarrest.com" email 
addresses from IETF mailing lists.

/a

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• To: adam at nostrum.com
• Subject: RE: Re: [Simple] I-DAction:draft-hellstrom-simple-text-transmission-00.txt (verification)
• From: Gregg <vanderhe at spamarrest.com>
• Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:29:56 -0700 (PDT)
• In-reply-to: <47D553D2.60202 at nostrum.com>

Title: Spam Arrest Sender Verification

	Hi My junk mail has now reached over 500 per day. So I am now using this service to check all email from addresses not on my verified list. TO GET YOUR EMAIL TO GO THROUGH - all you have to do is click on the link below and type the secret word it presents to you. (If you cant see - there is a link you can click on and it will read a word to you.) JUST TYPE THE WORD AND YOUR EMAIL WILL COME THROUGH TO ME ? and your email address added to my verified list If you don't want to or can't type the word - you can call me at 608 263-5788 and I will add your name by hand. Sorry for any inconvenience but I couldn't find all the good mail within all the junk. Gregg YOU ONLY NEED TO DO THIS ONCE. Please click the link below to complete the verification process. You have to do this only once. http://www.spamarrest.com/a2?ZwVjBQxjAGb6BzSxLJ1Noz9mqUW1oF5wo206E3WyM2pj   You are receiving this message in response to your email to Gregg, 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, and you're verified. You have to do this only once per Spam Arrest customer. ------------------------------------------------------------ Below are the complete headers of the message that this email was generated in response to. Return-Path: <adam at nostrum.com> Received: from mx1.cae.wisc.edu (mx1.cae.wisc.edu [144.92.13.28]) by mail.cae.wisc.edu (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m2AFTedc009181 for <tcd at mail.cae.wisc.edu>; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:29:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nostrum.com (root at shaman.nostrum.com [72.232.15.10]) by mx1.cae.wisc.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m2AFTYZ5028142 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for <gv at trace.wisc.edu>; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:29:40 -0500 Received: from orthrus.local ([130.129.87.39]) (authenticated bits=0) by nostrum.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m2AFTJQn039061 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:29:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from adam at nostrum.com) Message-ID: <47D553D2.60202 at nostrum.com> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:29:22 -0400 From: Adam Roach <adam at nostrum.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Campbell <ben at estacado.net> CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gunnar_Hellstr=F6m?= <gunnar.hellstrom at omnitor.se>, "'Paul E. Jones'" <paulej at packetizer.com>, Erik.Zetterstrom at omnitor.se, "'Simple WG'" <simple at ietf.org>, "'Gregg Vanderheiden'" <gv at trace.wisc.edu> Subject: Re: [Simple] I-DAction:draft-hellstrom-simple-text-transmission-00.txt References: <002e01c86397$4ba49d30$e2edd790$ at com><84214561-1BCA-4A34-AAC4-4A96A4AF4A63 at estacado.net><009201c881b4$f79fa3b0$211ea8c0 at GunnarH> <35CBDBAD-CB6F-44AB-94C6-BE56E048EABE at estacado.net> <00e901c88231$430aaa80$211ea8c0 at GunnarH> <47D54CEB.5020002 at nostrum.com> <376D6857-4D81-45B2-9AF8-2F0532EDF658 at estacado.net> In-Reply-To: <376D6857-4D81-45B2-9AF8-2F0532EDF658 at estacado.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received-SPF: pass (nostrum.com: 130.129.87.39 is authenticated by a trusted mechanism) Received-SPF: none(nostrum.com: nostrum.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Seen-By: Mailfromd 3.1.3

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