On Friday 28 February 2003 12:00 pm, Marc Perkel wrote: > If I understand it right. All someone would have to do to plack a > newsletter they didn't like is to subscribe the newsletter to a honeypot > account. > > In the case of a double opt-in system they would create an email alias > pointing to themselves, subscrive to the double opt-in list. The point > the alias to the honeypot account. Seems too easy to me. I question the > value of having such accounts. > There are so many easier ways to report a newsletter to so many different sources, why bother? Sure, one can subscribe with an address and then turn it into a spamtrap. One can just as easily manually report it to any number of RBLs. People can and do any number of bad things. "Newsletters" can do any number of things to "subscribe" unsuspecting folks, too. I'll spare you the details of how many things I must have subscribed to in my sleep.
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