theorein Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 Let's say I have an hotmail email account. How many ways are there some one can send me a message to my inbox? (form etc)
RyanJ Posted February 18, 2006 Posted February 18, 2006 Let's say I have an hotmail email account. How many ways are there some one can send me a message to my inbox? (form etc) Quite a few, this can be done from a server side script such as a PHP script, through a program such as VB using DOM methods to access elements of a page and fill them in dynamically... and the list goes on an on. If there a specific one you are interested in? Cheers, Ryan Jones
theorein Posted February 19, 2006 Author Posted February 19, 2006 Quite a few' date=' this can be done from a server side script such as a PHP script, through a program such as VB using DOM methods to access elements of a page and fill them in dynamically... and the list goes on an on. If there a specific one you are interested in? Cheers, Ryan Jones[/quote'] Thanks. I am trying to compirle a complete list to try to come up with a anti-spam solution.
the tree Posted February 19, 2006 Posted February 19, 2006 When in comes down to it, it's going to be by an SMTP server. What gets used to talk to that server (Outlook, a Perl script, command line) usually wont leave a trace.
RyanJ Posted February 19, 2006 Posted February 19, 2006 Thanks. I am trying to compirle a complete list to try to come up with a anti-spam solution. Ah I see. In that case I think its probably best to say that there are almost an unlimited number of ways that E-mails can be sent... How exactly were you planning ion implimenting something to stop spam that way?? (If you don't mind my asking) Cheers, Ryan Jones
theorein Posted February 20, 2006 Author Posted February 20, 2006 Ah I see. In that case I think its probably best to say that there are almost an unlimited number of ways that E-mails can be sent... How exactly were you planning ion implimenting something to stop spam that way?? (If you don't mind my asking) Cheers' date=' Ryan Jones[/quote'] Hi! That will be impossible as there are unknown number of ways to send an email. My method will not stop people from sending bulk emails but it will simply help identify all spams and all spams will be automatically deleted. The reason why spammers keep on sending spams are because they know some of them will get opened. If we implement my strategy, none of the spams will ever be opened.
RyanJ Posted February 20, 2006 Posted February 20, 2006 The reason why spammers keep on sending spams are because they know some of them will get opened. If we implement my strategy' date=' none of the spams will ever be opened.[/quote'] Thats true! Well, I can think of quite a few ways to do this - any language that can access the internet can send an E-mail. Cheers, Ryan Jones
Klaynos Posted February 20, 2006 Posted February 20, 2006 What if your spam capturing system picks up a mail as spam that isn't and just deletes it?
RyanJ Posted February 20, 2006 Posted February 20, 2006 What if your spam capturing system picks up a mail as spam that isn't and just deletes it? Thats a good point, I guess you'd need some sort of maintinance for a the filter list Cheers, Ryan Jones
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