Re: Slightly OT - Spam opprortunities in SMTP-AUTH

[rich...@buzzhost.co.uk]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 20:30 -0600, LuKreme wrote:
> On 11-Aug-2009, at 08:58, Charles Gregory wrote:
> > Again, I could be wrong, and would welcome input on this, but my  
> > feeling is that a webmail interface is a lot more trouble for a  
> > spammer to write scripts for?
> 
It's not really any trouble at all. A few lines of Perl and it's not
fussy *how* it kicks the doors of the hinges. Don't underestimate just
how easy it is to write code do something as trivial as abusing a web
based form handler.