[ltp] OT: About third-patry anti-spam protection (some people just don't get it...)

[Marcin Trybus]

Sorry for this OT, but I'm seriously angry with "protection" of some 
sort. Below is a sample message I received concerning my previous two
posts.

So I get this here notice that this here "Darrin" uses some fancy 
"protection".

| Spam Arrest requests that senders verify themselves before their email 
is delivered.

That's very convenient for mailing lists... "Darrin" receives an email 
from the list (i.e. not addressed to him directly), and I get buggered
to click a link of some sort that could as well put me on a spammer's 
list! Why would I click it? I don't know these guys, I'm not obliged
to know them, and sure enough I won't trust these guys. Why am I 
supposed to click the link anyway?

| You have to do this only once per Spam Arrest customer.

Oh, joy! It might have been once per message per costumer. Or once per 
message per addressee.

Trying to stay calm I thought my mail must somehow have been taken for 
spam. But here's what I see in the header of the returned message:

| X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 
autolearn=ham    version=2.63

What the hell? (GRRR!!!) Let's read on...

| Received-SPF: unknown(o2.pl: domain uses a mechanism not recognized by 
this client)

Oh, come on! Why am I being punished for having an email address in a 
"wrong" domain? I don't care if someone called "Darrin" receives my
posts or not. I don't give a rat's ass! I certainly don't want to get 
this message every time I post to this list for every person applying
this kind of oppressive technology (just one right now). I use a GPRS 
connection to read this list so I pay for the data volume downloaded,
so there is but one way to sort things out: the domain spamarrest.com 
gets auto-deletion rule in Thunderbird. Done in 2 minutes - no more
messages. Life goes on. With or without "Darrin", the otherwise happy 
Spamarrest.com subscriber.

| I've starting using Spamarrest to put a stop to the over 900 spams I 
was receiving each day. Now, I don't get them.

My supposedly retarded domain's mail servers filter spam. I get 14000+ 
spam on my two accounts there and no more than 10 gets through to Inbox. 
It's free and they don't annoy people with stupid messages. They just 
use the very same SpamAssassin.

*Stupid protection == No protection*

Thank you and excuse me for this mail.


The best (worst?) thing is that "Darrin" won't get my message at all! Sweet.


Regards

Marcin Trybus (Llewelyn_MT)



full message in question follows (some headers in Polish), no HTML, pics 
deleted

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- -------- Wiadomość oryginalna --------
Temat:     RE: *****SPAM***** Re: [ltp] Booting problem after install
of Ubuntu Alternative 6.10 on X41 Tablet (verification)
Data:     Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:52:46 -0800 (PST)
Nadawca:     Darrin <tizzyd@spamarrest.com>
Adresat:     mtrybus@o2.pl

~   [SPAMARREST.COM LOGO]

Sender Verification [this used to be a picture too]

I've starting using Spamarrest to put a stop to the over 900 spams I
was receiving each day. Now, I don't get them.

Please reply back, and I will put you on my list to get right through
my spam protection. Thanks!

Please click the link below to complete the verification process.
You have to do this only once.

(a link to spamarrest.com was here)

You are receiving this message in response to your email to Darrin, 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.

Received: from localhost by tisdalegroup.tisdalegroup.com
~    with SpamAssassin (2.63 2004-01-11);
~    Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:52:11 -0500
From: Marcin Trybus <mtrybus@o2.pl>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: *****SPAM***** Re: [ltp] Booting problem after install of
Ubuntu Alternative 6.10
~ on X41 Tablet
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:15:59 +0100
Message-Id: <4566FE9F.1070408@o2.pl>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_4567071B.5AA8BB2B"
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on
~    tisdalegroup.tisdalegroup.com
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
~    version=2.63
Status:
Received-SPF: unknown(o2.pl: domain uses a mechanism not recognized by 
this client)