# Tell me about Blue Frog anti-spam program - Does it work? Is it safe?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-blue-frog-anti-spam-program-does-it-work-is-it-safe/356063>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 9, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-blue-frog-anti-spam-program-does-it-work-is-it-safe/356063 "2006-05-09T14:45:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-blue-frog-anti-spam-program-does-it-work-is-it-safe/356063/1 "2006-05-09T14:45:27Z")

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This program below

[Bue Security Site](http://bluesecurity.com/)

Seems to be getting great reviews. I get about 20 spams a day. Does this program work? Main mechanism seems to be via overhelming spammers servers. Any hidden gotchas on using this program?

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> Your spam is analyzed by Blue Security experts that identify the Web sites advertized by the spam you receive. The Blue Frog desktop application then proceeds to post complaints on those web sites by browsing them and filling forms they contain. Complaints are anonymous and do not reveal your identity. Filtering spam is not enough. Blue Frog protects your e-mail accounts or your entire mail domain by making spammers remove all Blue Community members from their mailing lists. This release supports Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail but currently doesn’t support the new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-blue-frog-anti-spam-program-does-it-work-is-it-safe/356063/2 "2006-05-09T15:15:28Z")

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It doesn’t sound so great to me.  
_Blue Frog empowers you to exercise your opt-out right in a safe and secure manner and allows you to register your email addresses or your personal email domains in the Do Not Intrude Registry, free of charge._  
This may work for legit mailers, but most spammers don’t give a rat’s ass about opt-out. The same thing that works pretty well for phone calls doesn’t work that well for spam. Phone calls cost money, sending millions of spams costs hardly anything. In addition, many people make money not sending spam, but by selling “targeted lists” that are really just every goddamn address they can find, in any country.

_Blue Frog automatically posts complaints on the sites advertised by spam._  
This would be quite a feat considering every website is different. I’m sure they’re not doing it manually.  
It seems like their whole system is depending on the people sending spam to care about opt-out. Which they don’t.

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-blue-frog-anti-spam-program-does-it-work-is-it-safe/356063/3 "2006-05-09T15:39:55Z")

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There is apparently an earlier duplicate thread on this topic. Would a passing mod please close this one.