Where Does Spam Come From? No, Really?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 22, 2003 @02:33AM from the researching-the-devil dept.

jnazario writes "The Center for Democracy and Technology has recently put together a really neat paper studying the methods by which spammers get your email addresses. The report posted otherwise unused email addresses in a variety of locations, using different techniques for visibility (ie HTML encoding vs plaintext) and then watched what accumulated after six months. They generated some interesting results into the methods by which spammers can track you (with publicly available websites containing your bare email address being the most popular method) and even some techniques to stop spam, such as HTML encoding your email address. A very interesting read."

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Re:I'm down to two a week now by AssFace · 2003-04-22 03:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I am a newbie. I just recently downloaded the internet off of AOL and I find it all amazing.
I'm a sponge yearning for knowledge.

Now hold me and we can drive each other's nuts off into the sunset.
Oh wait - you said... nevermind.

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Nuff Said by Lugor · 2003-04-22 07:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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