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 > > > > The email should contain TWO urls. One real and one a honey-pot. If the honey-pot URL gets tripped, then it should unsubscribe the box that polled all of the URLs in the email. If the email recipient clicks on the non-honey-pot URL, then they stay on the mailing list. Doesn't the sqlite web site already do something like this to defend against fubared search engines that ignore the ROBOTS.TXT file and scan all hyperlinks anyway?
Man, that last sentence sucked. The English language should be drug out into the street and shot.
