Pity poor Brian Cartmell, CEO of SpamArrest. He has a tough job: going hat in hand from site to site saying “please take down the bad things you said about us.”

Spam Arrest is the purveyor of an anti-spam challenge/response system. When someone sends email to a SpamArrest user, they must first respond to a challenge sent to them by the SpamArrest system. This means that SpamArrest now has that email address - the email address belonging to their customer’s correspondent - in their own database. You can see where this is going, can’t you?

About two years ago, SpamArrest sent out some “marketing messages”…

[Spam Arrest Tries to Rewrite History, Asks Authors to Remove Negative Reviews of SpamArrest, Continued]