[Gllug] re spam

[Christopher Hunter]

On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 7:43 pm, Alistair Mann wrote:

> In the real world, sending a garbage message would provide further
> information, even better if one can add a url too: in the first case, some
> refusals don't occur until after a message is sent, in the second the
> server logs would note that a particular url was accessed therefore
> confirming the address as one leading to a human.

Also, some of the less intelligent e-mail clients running in the M$ world can 
automagically open URLs included in e-mails (by default) as a "convenience 
feature", so there can be automatic confirmation of address validity!  This 
was one "feature" that I used to demonstrate the innate vulnerability of M$ 
e-mail clients - the other was automatic rendering (and execution) of html 
mail.

Chris

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