[OT] 'Email this story to a friend'

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 49310
interpreted = N
texte = Client wants me to implement the 'email this story to a friend' function on their websites. No problem in accomplishing it, however, my SPAM alert is going off real loud...I can just see someone abusing the hell out of this. For instance, I just went to Yahoo! and sent myself a story from a random email address that I made up. Not good. What's to stop me from using a proxy server to mask my IP, then go to Yahoo!, send a story to each of you, along with a nasty personal message (or worse, an ADVERTISEMENT...boo hiss), and make the FROM address my arch-enemy's email? Well, what's to stop me other than the fact that I have a conscience? But you get the point.Doesn't this open my client (and then me, since I'll have to deal with it...) up to SPAMCOP hell, etc? They have their own servers/routers/network, etc., so any problems will be confined to them, but this still seems like a huge, gaping vulnerability (legal and otherwise) to leave in a company, no?I thought I could send an email back to the specified FROM address and require them to click a link (and thus verify themselves as the sender)... but Yahoo! just sends a note along with the story that says Email address has not been verifiedAny thoughts? Thanks and sorry for the long post.-Dan ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Sal D'anna 2003)
  2. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (John Peacock 2003)
  3. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Rob Marquardt 2003)
  4. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Donovan 2003)
  5. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Sal D'anna 2003)
  6. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Dan Strong 2003)
  7. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Alex McCombie 2003)
  8. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Kimberly D. Walls 2003)
  9. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Dan Strong 2003)
  10. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Dan Strong 2003)
  11. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Matthew Bohne 2003)
  12. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Dan Strong 2003)
  13. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Alex McCombie 2003)
  14. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Donovan 2003)
  15. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Alex McCombie 2003)
  16. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Dan Strong 2003)
  17. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Alex McCombie 2003)
  18. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Donovan 2003)
  19. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Dan Strong 2003)
  20. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Matthew A Perosi 2003)
  21. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Alex McCombie 2003)
  22. Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (John Peacock 2003)
  23. [OT] 'Email this story to a friend' (Dan Strong 2003)
Client wants me to implement the 'email this story to a friend' function on their websites. No problem in accomplishing it, however, my SPAM alert is going off real loud...I can just see someone abusing the hell out of this. For instance, I just went to Yahoo! and sent myself a story from a random email address that I made up. Not good. What's to stop me from using a proxy server to mask my IP, then go to Yahoo!, send a story to each of you, along with a nasty personal message (or worse, an ADVERTISEMENT...boo hiss), and make the FROM address my arch-enemy's email? Well, what's to stop me other than the fact that I have a conscience? But you get the point.Doesn't this open my client (and then me, since I'll have to deal with it...) up to SPAMCOP hell, etc? They have their own servers/routers/network, etc., so any problems will be confined to them, but this still seems like a huge, gaping vulnerability (legal and otherwise) to leave in a company, no?I thought I could send an email back to the specified FROM address and require them to click a link (and thus verify themselves as the sender)... but Yahoo! just sends a note along with the story that says Email address has not been verifiedAny thoughts? Thanks and sorry for the long post.-Dan ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.StrongGraphicDesign.com (208) 319-0137 | Toll-free p/f 877-561-1656 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Dan Strong

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