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> Udo,
> The "web forum spam" is probably what I referred to in newsgroup NNTP
> discussion a few months back. NNTP is a sure way to get your email address
> added to spammer list, be it dialup or broadband.
> CU L8R!
> Wiz <{;-)
Hi Wiz,
I think you misunderstood me - I am not talking about the harvesting of
email addresses, I am talking about the posting of Spam in web forums.
If a forum is visited by 1000 people per day, then posting a single Spam
message is equivalent to sending out 1000 Spam emails to those users.
Yet the bandwidth required for posting a single message is much lower.
So the main requirement for successfully posting Spam in a web forum is
not a vast bandwidth but an ever-changing IP address. This makes
non-persistent connections and dynamically assigned IP addresses ideal
for the spammers.
Regards,
Udo
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