On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Buddha Buck wrote: > At 05:06 PM 04-10-2002 +0100, Jack Campin you wrote: > >How come nearly all the spam this list gets is from Turkey? > > > >What have they figured out that no other spammers have? > > That's a good question. I've been curious about international spammers > myself, since I've been besieged with Chinese and Korean spam in my > personal mailbox (I took some Japanese at University, but I don't read > Chinese or Korean). I wonder why they chose me, and English-speaking > spammers haven't.
They're not picking on you. I'm getting bucketloads of Korean html spam the last few months. I came across a suggestion recently, that a good way to put an email link on a web page is to do it via a javascript routine. Clicking it gives a working url, but there's nothing harvestable. Bolting the stable door when the stolen horse <u.m.f crossthread alert !> has died of old age, in my case. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
