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The following are excerpts from selected news articles featuring Spam Arrest. Links have been provided where available.
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Point of View: Why Spam Filters Don't Work
Messaging Pipeline - July 4, 2005
The solution to the spam problem is not another filter, but to utilize a different method entirely -- the challenge/response system.
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The Enterprise: Is This the Solution for SPAM
DM Review Magazine - June 2005
Overnight my life has changed! I no longer receive 500 to 600 messages a day, of which only two to three percent are valid. Today, 100 percent of the e-mail that I receive is valid. This is simple technology, yet it works so elegantly. There may be better solutions to the spam problem out there, but I have not seen them. This seems to be the solution for me. It may also be the solution to your spam problem.
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Keep Your Work From Home Newsletter From Being A Spam Filter Casualty
WebProNews - May 12, 2005
My personal favorite is Spam Arrest, because it offers you total control over your inbox.
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Company Tries to purge Web Criticism
ABC News - May 12, 2005
Brian Cartmell, chief executive of Spam Arrest LLC, said the posts in question reflect past practices, but people who read them today might mistakenly believe the policies are current.
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An arresting development in daily war against spam
Seattle Times - April 18, 2005
The Result: Spam Arrest customers receive e-mail only from people who verify themselves.
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E-Mail users are getting used to spam
übergizmo - April 10, 2005
I recently noticed that more and more people are using spamarrest, a service that put itself between your mailbox and the senders.
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Test your friends' reading ability with Spam Arrest
Lifehacker - January 28, 2005
The great thing about Spam Arrest is that you will never get spam again.
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The Newest Front in the Anti-Spam Wars
E-Commerce Times - September 5, 2003
Challenge-response works differently. Rather than using a multitude of
rules to determine what may or may not be spam, the software takes the
approach of a club bouncer to keep undesirables out.
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The Online Guy: Al Gibes - Anti-spam vigilante strikes back
Las Vegas Review-Journal - August 4, 2003
Personally, I'm a much more efficient and happy Netizen since I started using Spam Arrest, putting me in better control of my in-box.
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Famed hacker endorses Spam Arrest
Toronto Star - August 4, 2003
So what does [Kevin] Mitnick, former hacker supremo, use to guard against spam? "I use Spam Arrest," he told The Guardian. "Any legitimate person who wants to send me a message has to jump through hoops before they can be added to my opt-in list."
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In this corner of Minnesota, it's Spam vs. spam
Chicago Tribune - July 30, 2003
"Everybody refers to it as spam. Judges call it spam. You ask people on the street, everybody tells you it's the stuff that hits your e-mail boxes. It is generic," said Derek Newman, a Seattle attorney representing SpamArrest, which is marketing computer software designed to block spam.
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Hormel Sues SpamArrest Over Name
Los Angeles Times - July 30, 2003
SpamArrest spokesperson Allen Priaulx said. "Everyone in the world considers junk e-mail spam- it's a ubiquitous term. So we called the company SpamArrest."
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Spam: Don't Butcher its Name
Wired News - July 30, 2003
SpamArrest, which specializes in blocking junk e-mail or "spam," filed papers to trademark its corporate name early this year. Hormel then sent the company a warning to drop the word "Spam." SpamArrest refused.
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Innocents suffer in war on spam
Detroit Free Press - July 11, 2003
More specifically, you have to prove you're not a robot, an automatic spam-sending computer program that spews out junk messages touting pornographic Web sites or Viagra or get-rich-quick schemes.
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Eat SPAM, Say Spam, Just Don't Try to Trademark Spam: Hormel
DM News - July 9, 2003
Brian Cartmell, president/CEO of SpamArrest, said in a statement. "Dozens of companies use the word 'spam' in their legal and commercial names, and no one confuses any of us with the Hormel canned meat product."
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A can of worms
The Age - July 8, 2003
Spam Arrest LLC, a Seattle technology company that provides spam-blocking software for email users.
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The Beef Over 'Spam'
TechTV - July 7, 2003
SpamArrest, the Seattle-based, self-proclaimed defender of your inbox.
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Protecting Its Proprietary Pork
Washington Post - July 1, 2003
[Hormel] added that Spam Arrest's name so closely resembles that of its lunch meat that the public might become confused, or might think that Hormel endorses Spam Arrest's products.
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Arresting Spam: Seattle's Spam Arrest Practically Eliminates Spam
Seattle 24x7 - June 24, 2003
Book 'em, Spamo...Seattle's Spam Arrest has effectively put an end to Spam as we know it.
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You've got spam! Here's a new reply
Los Angeles Times - June 19, 2003
Turning on challenge-response for the first time is like going from a chaotic room with everyone shouting at one another to a quiet cottage with only the occasional welcome visitor.
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Court denies Mailblocks' injunction request
News.com - June 12, 2003
A Washington district court this week denied a request for a preliminary injunction by Mailblocks, an antispam software company that claims rival Spam Arrest is violating its patented technology.
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Knox ad executive sold on message filter
Knoxville News Sentinel - June 9, 2003
[Spam Arrest has] eliminated some of that time and frustration, so now everything that comes into the in-box I know is legitimate. I don't question it.
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The Online Guy: Al Gibes - Software stops spam in its tracks
Las Vegas Review-Journal - May 5, 2003
The average Internet user gets about 1,500 unwanted e-mail messages a year, promising everything from lower mortgage rates to cheap prescriptions to enhanced, enlarged or improved body parts. I get that many a week. Or at least I used to. Read more...
Don't let spammers take over your email
New Zealand Herald - March 28, 2003
This week we look at five spam-fighting tools in the war against Captain Bob and his ilk...
[Spam Arrest] was by far the most effective spam-blocking tool. Read more...
Spam Arrest lets you pick the senders you'll block
Seattle Times - March 1, 2003
[Spam Arrest] has one cool feature most of its competitors lack: a real-life tech-support person... Having an open connection to the company makes a huge difference as to the integrity of the program. Read more...
Spam Should Be Driving Technical Innovation
eWeek - January 14, 2003
Current techniques of keyword filtering and server blacklisting have ongoing problems with false negatives and false positives. Meanwhile, white-list approaches such as the Turing Test used by Spam Arrest LLC are another promising approach. Read more...
Turing tests filter spam email
NewScientist.com - January 3, 2003
Simple tests designed to distinguish computers from humans are increasingly being used to clamp down on unsolicited, or "spam", email advertising. Read more...
Review - Spam Arrest
WebmasterBase.com - November 7, 2002
Spam Arrest seems a simple yet effective solution to fight unwanted email. Read more...
Newsletter
Cool Site of the Day - October 11, 2002
I signed up for Spam Arrest a few weeks ago and my attitude towards checking e-mail has improved 1,000%. Read more...
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