Spam arrest is a service you pay for to protect your computer from spam. It is one that is sponsored at spyware info - I trust what they say in that newsletter. Spyware Weekly had been recommended to me a while back - I posted the link the other day http://www.spywareinfo.com/ I also read about spam arrest in some other anti-spyware web sites a while back. It seems that this style of protection started out on the corporate level, and has been able to be filtered down to the public level. I am very wary of putting my address out there - and doing things that would give me more spam than I already receive. I would never go to a spam filter's web site that solicits itself thru normal spam, and those come in to me at least once or twice/day. This is basically Jim choosing to use a service, and he is asking, thru the service, for you to tell him whether you are a human or a computer. computer's can't read the instructions to click on the link - so it will block them. ONce you click his link, it will let them know your e-mail address is a human, and legit - and it will be added to his account as a safe address. I guess it is possible that they could harvest these addresses, but I think this is a legitimate program, making money for a needed service - and they would really be stupid to then turn around and sell everyone's addresses! Not that it couldn't happen - I don't know how they do it technically - but I've heard of this particular program, and think it is a legit one. a friend got one the other day from a program I had never heard of - I worry that with all of the spam out there, this is going to be what everyone ends up doing down the road. which is a real shame. anyway - just my opinion on the subject!! crisS ----- Original Message ----- From: Barnstoneworth To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 7:22 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: SpamAarrest?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glo" <redowl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > I think we all have by now, but some are clicking on it, some not. I got it > in an email to my personal address, plus it's been on the list. --Glo Yes, I thought everyone would be getting messages like this-the big problem is, I'm going to to be getting one every time I post a message to the list -I'm not prepared to click on any link in an e mail, so isn't this supposed anti Spam blocker actually creating Spam?? Andy To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk