[SECC] question on email - spamarrest

[email2013 at k4ama.com]

Jeff,

The only solution I have found is to use a service.   The service that I use is spamarrest...

http://www.spamarrest.com/

An email cannot get through until the sender email  address has been approved.   Approval can come in one of two ways...   you can pre-approve the specific email address or even any address from a specific url ( people from the office )...    Or, when someone that hasn't been pre-approved sends you an email, they get a reply from spamarrest.   They have to respond to this email, answer a question - confirm they are a real person - or their email isn't delivered... (but you can go through those if you want to)   Once they do this verification process once, the first time, any and all future emails from their email address go through normally.  

I use spamarrest for my office and my home email...  I get ZERO spam emails...  no exageration... maybe one or two a month who send through a false paypal or ebay email address... but spamarrest picks those up pretty quick..

Now, there are a couple of downsides....

1 - it causes problems with lists..   group email lists, where all kinds of unknow email addresses can pop up...   causes aggrevation and constirnation for the list members...  hence my email address for this list   email2013 at k4ama.com    I'll just change this list address annually, and the email associated with this address do not go through spamarrest.

2 - Some folks think their emails are 'bouncing' when they get the reply from spamarrest.  They get this apparent form letter and assume a bounce rather than actually reading the email, and responding to it.  Send me an email at tony at taustin.com   and you'll see what the spamarrest reply looks like.

3 - Unfortunately, the service is not free....   it isn't expensive, I think we pay $10 a month but they have plans for only a few dollars a month I think...   

It works great... but as with most things that actually work...  it comes at a small cost.

Hope that helps !!

73,  Tony K4AMA

email2013 at k4ama.com
www.K4AMA.com
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeff (W4DD) 
  To: South East Contest Club 
  Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 8:40 PM
  Subject: [SECC] question on email


   

  I've always been careful with my email address (call at arrl.net), but somewhere along the line spammers must have gotten it.  I now get about 100 spam emails a day.

   

  They go in the spam folder, but once in a while a good email goes there too, so I must weed through them.  Anyone have  method for getting off the spammer list without abandoning the email address?

   

  Jeff



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