It was just luck, I imagine. There are probably many cable users scanning many pages. A spoofed IP wouldn't be very useful (or even very possible) except to someone with a computer located very near the web server.
You would need the results of the web page sent to your actual IP address, or you would not get to harvest any web page content.
I'm willing to wager that tohell.com, lone.com, and ss.com are not too happy with you. If I give a fake address, I'll usually give one with a domain name that the company owns. Thus: youbastards-suckass@real.com
A past owner of domain.com once had a desperate plea for people to stop using "user@domain.com" and similar email addresses.
To nitpick a bit, this tactic is actually used to hide the window in all respects but its entry in the taskbar. (it's resized to one pixel tall and wide, and moved way off the lower right corner, unless your screen resolution is above 10,000 x 10,000.)
Popups like this usually avoid being noticed, so they can launch normal pop up ads at thirty second intervals if they so choose.
I can't stand this crap. Mozilla has gone in a great direction by disabling any "window.open" calls except from user generated events. (no more popups "onLoad" or "onUnload," if you enable that feature)
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It was just luck, I imagine. There are probably many cable users scanning many pages. A spoofed IP wouldn't be very useful (or even very possible) except to someone with a computer located very near the web server. You would need the results of the web page sent to your actual IP address, or you would not get to harvest any web page content.
I'm willing to wager that tohell.com, lone.com, and ss.com are not too happy with you. If I give a fake address, I'll usually give one with a domain name that the company owns. Thus: youbastards-suckass@real.com
A past owner of domain.com once had a desperate plea for people to stop using "user@domain.com" and similar email addresses.
To nitpick a bit, this tactic is actually used to hide the window in all respects but its entry in the taskbar. (it's resized to one pixel tall and wide, and moved way off the lower right corner, unless your screen resolution is above 10,000 x 10,000.)
Popups like this usually avoid being noticed, so they can launch normal pop up ads at thirty second intervals if they so choose.
I can't stand this crap. Mozilla has gone in a great direction by disabling any "window.open" calls except from user generated events. (no more popups "onLoad" or "onUnload," if you enable that feature)