Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:21:09 -0400
From: Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] SpamArrest
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

This might be of interest to those of you for whom spam is a major
problem. It's called Spam Arrest (http://www.spamarrest.com/), and it
works by sending an email response to anyone who emails you for the
first time, directing them to go to a web site and manually confirm
their existence. They are then added to your authorized sender list, so
it only needs to be done once. I imagine you can manually add people to
the authorized sender list as well, but I haven't read into it that far.

If anyone uses it, I'd be interested to hear your impressions. A bit
drastic for me to pursue just yet, but I may consider it in future.

--
Jim Kling
science writer
Rockville, MD
http://nasw.org/users/jkling