Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/02

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Subject: [Leica] Spam arrest?
From: eperea at walkereng.com (Emilio Perea)
Date: Tue Nov 2 12:36:03 2004
References: <BDAD2A85.966C%mark@rabinergroup.com>
 
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:13:57PM -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
> Has anyone heard of this "Spam arrest" where you are directed to a kind of 
> a
> web site and you are instructed to click on something to clear you through 
> a
> guys email?

It's one of those challenge/response systems intended to reduce spam by
making it harder to send mail to you.  What they actually do is annoy
all your friends and help to improve the breed of spammers who like a
challenge.
In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Spam arrest?)