full-disclosure - About spamb strange characters

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Message-ID: <20030513123707.GD14399@eiv.com>
From: smcmahon at eiv.com (Shawn McMahon)
Subject: About spamb strange characters

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:17:31AM +0200, Nicolas Villatte said:
> 
> <http://gethelpu.com/Auto/index.htm> .

(much snipped)

> Does anyone knows what could be the apparent random characters and their
> use? Is it some kind of encoding? Signature?

It's address harvesting.  The random characters are to prevent Razor
signatures from working.  The URL is a standard "enter your address
here to get removed from our lists (wink wink nudge nudge)" form.  Put
your address in that form, and you'll be added to some big spam lists no
doubt.

I wish the Chinese would use their country-wide firewall to block all
outbound traffic on port 25.  Either that, or make spamming punishable
by death.  What's the point in having a Stalinist dictatorship if you
don't use it to punish spammers?  :-)

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