The Cunning Art of Spam

[dartcol]

I got a spam amil from someone purporting to be ann.swelam AT nokia.com. Unfortunately, I was half asleep at the time and before I knew it had forwarded it on to a few friends (to get a new phone! Yeah, right!) However, fortunately I forgot to cc it to this ann.swelam AT nokia.com so they never received my mail.

My question is: Can spammers detect a forward when it is opened inside another mail by someone working online? I really don't know to much about this method of harvest. Anyone care to sHed some light?

[bubblenut]

Originally posted by dartcol
Anyone care to sed some light?


echo "dark" | sed "s/dark/light/g"


Sorry, I couldn't resist :D

[dartcol]

echo "dark" | sed "s/dark/light/g"


You're going to have to explain to a dimbo I'm afraid! :confused: as ever ...

[bubblenut]

It's a unix shell script. echo the string dark pipe it into sed (a stream editor) and replace all occurences of dark with light. Outputs light :D


I think I need to get out more
/me heads to the pub to try to talk to girls

[dartcol]

Ah-hah!

I think I agree with you! :D

That is, girls can be fun! Oh-oh, I sense a deep hole being dug here ... back on topic ... does anyone have an idea - about the orignal question that is ... oh dear, maybe it's time for bed ....

[piersk]

Originally posted by dartcol
That is, girls can be fun!

Easy tiger! You're a married man, remember... ;)

[dartcol]

Computers are fun too ... errr ....