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 [edit]sHed[/edit] 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 😃

dartcol

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

You're going to have to explain to a dimbo I'm afraid! 😕 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 😃

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

dartcol

Ah-hah!

I think I agree with you! 😃

[edit]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 ....[/edit]

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 ....