Re: [OT] 'Email this story to a friend'

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 49317
interpreted = N
texte = On 4/8/03 12:26 PM, Matthew A Perosi wrote:> I have actually seen and received email personally from systems like Yahoo! > through their send this to a friend or email an invitation to someone to > join this club/group > > In fact, a few years ago I wanted to get the attention of about 200 Yahoo! > users whom we had the Yahoo! IDs for, but not email addresses. So I myself > wrote a perl script to interact with the Send invitation to page that > Yahoo! had. It worked real nice, and I achieved my result. > > Albeit, I did not try to SPAM a few thousand people, but I could have > very easily have done it. > > So, from first hand being the SPAMee and the SPAMer, it can and will be done. Which actually points out the importance of the script that does this (DNA code).In other words, the feature should be set up to make sure that it is not being called from the outside like you mention above. This would be the prudent way to do it and wouldn't require the back and forth email, which doesn't really stop unsolicited email, it only validates the from address.It is a well known fact that a lot of these systems are setup in such a way that someone from the outside could 'automate' them for devious purposes. It doesn't mean yours should do it ;-)IMHO Alex Alex J McCombie New World Media Chief Information Officer Drawer 607 800/724.8973 Fair Haven, NY 13064 Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.comInterface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer------------------------------------------------------------- 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)
On 4/8/03 12:26 PM, Matthew A Perosi wrote:> I have actually seen and received email personally from systems like Yahoo! > through their send this to a friend or email an invitation to someone to > join this club/group > > In fact, a few years ago I wanted to get the attention of about 200 Yahoo! > users whom we had the Yahoo! IDs for, but not email addresses. So I myself > wrote a perl script to interact with the Send invitation to page that > Yahoo! had. It worked real nice, and I achieved my result. > > Albeit, I did not try to SPAM a few thousand people, but I could have > very easily have done it. > > So, from first hand being the SPAMee and the SPAMer, it can and will be done. Which actually points out the importance of the script that does this (DNA code).In other words, the feature should be set up to make sure that it is not being called from the outside like you mention above. This would be the prudent way to do it and wouldn't require the back and forth email, which doesn't really stop unsolicited email, it only validates the from address.It is a well known fact that a lot of these systems are setup in such a way that someone from the outside could 'automate' them for devious purposes. It doesn't mean yours should do it ;-)IMHO Alex Alex J McCombie New World Media Chief Information Officer Drawer 607 800/724.8973 Fair Haven, NY 13064 Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.comInterface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Alex McCombie

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