How to collect addresses for sending spam. It's not hard. You don't need the harvesting tools from ElcomSoft. No, you don't have to spider the web or grep through newsgroups. All you have to do is farm out an email address to spammers, then grep the emails they send, since they often include multiple addresses in the To or CC line. Alternatively, set up your own computer to act as an open relay for the first N messages -- to fool a spammer into thinking he has an open relay -- then collect the SMTP recipients.
Okay, I really don't like spam. And I'm not trying to offer advice would-be spammers. I'm just commenting on how, once you get on a spammer's list, you might soon end up on every spammers list.
Posted by Doug Sauder at May 3, 2002 02:37 PM