"Spam Killer?"

Have you ever heard of Spam Arrest.

The idea is that you sign up in a websites form and that person in order to send you email has to fill out a captcha in order to send you, what you requested.

Personally, I think this is ridiculous to force someone to do this, especially since you have requested the information.

But, hey it works and in the end all is well.

However, Earthlink also has what I shall dub, a reverse double opt in.

Every time I send out an email blast to my list I inevitably get about 20 emails that say:

I apologize for this automatic reply to your email.

To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I have approved before hand.

If you would like to be added to my list of approved senders, please fill out the short request form (see link below). Once I approve you, I will receive your original message in my inbox. You do not need to resend your message. I apologize for this one-time inconvenience.

Click the link below to fill out the request:

http ://theurl.com

The link takes me to a page that looks like this:

The captcha does not work, and audio version of the Captcha code does not work.

This is extremely frustrating. At first I thought it might be good ole IE7. So I tried it in Mozilla and Opera browsers. Same result.

So what do you do, you have to delete them off your list.

This makes it so the recipient never receives what they wanted. Thats too bad and wastes everyones time.