Posted by dorayme on 05/22/07 23:08

In article <46536fbf$1_2@news.bluewin.ch>,
John Hosking <John@DELETE.Hosking.name.INVALID> wrote:

.... snip my q for obvious reasons of pride ...


> No. The advantage is that the spammer can use the site owner's SMTP
> server to send all the spam for him/her/it. It (the spammer) doesn't
> need to obfuscate the source or routing of its spam messages, since
> they're all coming from the poor sap who put up the Web site with the
> sieve-like contact form. The recipients can't possibly determine the
> spammer's identity or location.

I guess I was thinking that spammers had no end of means of
obscuring their addresses without realising that this form way
with a CC is also a good one for them and has the advantage you
mention.

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dorayme

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