How about asking a new subscriber to copy some magic number from the body to the subject of his reply? AFAIK autoresponders can't do that.
Kind regards Ulrich On Wednesday 31 May 2006 17:17, Clark Christensen wrote: > > And yet somehow, the spammer still managed to get signed up > > using a "paypal.com" address. How did they do that? > > -- > > As others have pointed-out, there's probably a simple autoresponder on many > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailboxes. It replied, and that was good > enough :-) > > I think if the list confirm messages had a link to click on to validate the > subscription (that leads somewhere other than replying to the message), the > anonymous autoresponders wouldn't validate. Plus, it wouldn't lock-out > legitimate users at paypal.com (somebody suggested rejecting by domain). > > -Clark
