Charles, et al --
...and then Charles Curley said...
% On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:15:19AM -0400, David T-G muttered:
% > ...and then Anthony Green said...
% > %
% > % This was a thought I had while deleteing spam mail and was wondering if
...
% >
% > much to automate my spam submissions to spamcop; it's easy enough now
...
% > and etcetc. The standard way to submit a spam message is to paste it into
% > the web page and hit the button, but this was a PITA under one terminal
%
% But it might be something to automate using the duct tape of the
% net. Christiansen & Torkington, Perl Cookbook, O'Reilly, 1998, has a
% recipe for automating forms submission (20.2). It is slick and I have used
% it extensively for testing a form's CGI program. Can you use this to build
% a perl script to submit the info to spamcop?
Hmmm... How would that benefit me better than just forwarding the note
to spamcop, which is all handled with a simple ";fsc:wqy" to tag-forward
the items to my sc alias, force a vim write, and say yes to shipping?
Now one interesting possibility would be to hand the returned email,
with all of those URLs, off to this script so that it could open lynx on
each [qualifying] URL, wait 5 seconds, continue on, check any un-checked
addresses, and then submit... It would literally be "fire and forget" :-)
%
% The recipe returns the return web page, which you could then pass to the
% browser of your choice for examination or further manual transactions.
If I'm still have to stop at the browser, then I'm not getting any
benefit.
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