Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 05/23/07 01:58

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Jonathan N. Little"
<lws4art@centralva.net> writing in
news:9cce$46535e36$40cba7a4$21419@NAXS.COM:

> dorayme wrote:
>> In article <46526ef0$0$7128$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net>,
>> Leif K-Brooks <eurleif@ecritters.biz> wrote:
>>
>>> Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>>>> Usually, when I make contact forms, I include an option to cc the
>>>> sender.
>>> Spammers must love you.
>>
>> Care to elaborate?
>>
> If you allow a fill in email where message can be CC'd your could put
> nice lists like:
>
> victim1@example.com;victim2@example.net,victim3@example.org...
>
> and then put their SPAMing message in message field
>
> "See Britney's ***** at http://www....."
>
> and your form is now used to broadcast SPAM, yum!
>
>

That's where server side check is most important. Email addresses have
to be a valid format. I can also do a mx check before the message even
gets to the SMTP server.


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