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February 28, 2006

Spammers Just Don’t Know When To Quit

category: Computer & Security — David Stansbury @ 12:33 am — permalink | pingback | RSS

Today one of my website clients and distant relative of mine, Tracy A. Lynn, forwarded several emails to me with a bunch of gibberish and junk entries.  Apparently some spammer tried to use her contact / feedback form to post their usual garbage.  This might have worked back in the old days, but this is 2006 people!  Fortunately, when I created the contact form in PHP I hard-coded the recipient email address, subject line and message headers.  No spoofing of email headers, anonymous junk guestbook entries or other garbage here! ;)   The code also reports their I.P. address; yes, he was using an open proxy server, no surprise there.  Sure wish there was a practical way to block traffic from those pesky open proxies without creating a ton of server overhead.

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