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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Dupe by guusbosman · 2003-04-22 02:38 · Score: 1, Redundant

April 1st again?

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/19/173624 9&tid=111 (dupe 1)

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/144220 6&mode=nested&tid=111&tid=95 (dupe 2)
Re:Dupe by James_Duncan8181 · 2003-04-22 02:39 · Score: 0, Redundant

I want to mod all slackbacks redundant as all you have to do is wait for the story to come round again...

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dupe by ih8apple · 2003-04-22 02:40 · Score: 0, Redundant

Duplicate

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Why do I h8 apple?
Re:Woah by Ragica · 2003-04-22 07:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

Can anyone suggest a slashdot-like site where the maintainers actually seem to care about the integrity of the content?
These constant dupes, from no less than the founder of the site, are just depressing.