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MovableType SPAMMING script!!!

On: Python Conference Coming Soon

Python is great.
import urllib
import sys
from whrandom import choice
import string
entryid = 2979
cgiurl = "http://www.jayallen.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cg i"

message_text = """

"""

def GenEmail():
chars = string.letters
username = ""
hostname = ""
for i in range(5):
username = username + choice(chars)
hostname = hostname + choice(chars)
email = username + "@" + hostname + ".com"
return email

def GenWebsite():
chars = string.letters
site = ""
for i in range(8):
site = site + choice(chars)
site = site + ".com"
return site

def RandomProxy():
# high anonymity from 2004.01.06
proxylist = ["http://213.131.72.19:8080/", "http://203.124.247.50:80/", "http://66.123.154.53:80/", "http://200.29.132.50:8000/"]
rtnprox = choice(proxylist)
return rtnprox
def pseudoname():
chars = string.letters
name = ""
for w in range(6):
name = name + choice(chars)
return name

def rndmessage():
chars = string.letters
msize = [10, 15, 20, 25]
wsize = [2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12]
message = ""
for l in range(choice(msize)):
for m in range(choice(wsize)):
message = message + choice(chars)
message = message + " "
return message
thisproxy = RandomProxy()

for i in range(int(sys.argv[1])):
proxies = {'http': thisproxy}
opendev = urllib.FancyURLopener(proxies)
par = urllib.urlencode(
{
'entry_id': entryid,
'author': pseudoname(),
'email': GenEmail(),
'text': rndmessage(),
#'text': message_text
'post': " Post ",
'checkbox': "false",
'url': GenWebsite()}
)
f = opendev.open(cgiurl, par)
print f.read(8096)

Spam is not that big a problem

On: The Battle Against Junk Mail and Spyware

Whenever there are polls on the issue of spam emails there is a very bi-polar pattern in the results.

What they show is that a small but siginificant number of people (~20%) people get spammed hundreds of times a day, while (~50% -- ~60%) recieve very little spam.

There is hardly anyone in the middle.