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Re: Mailbait- Fill your inbox with SPAM

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Post by georgemcbay »

"MailBait does not condone using other people's email address with this service. Please treat other people's email with respect and don't sign them up for spam regardless of how much you think it would be funny."

nod, nod, wink, wink?

If not, then why would you put something like this up without doing even a bog-standard email confirmation on the entered email address?

Can't tell if trolling or epically naive.

Re: Mailbait- Fill your inbox with SPAM

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Post by e1ven »

georgemcbay wrote: post #2

"MailBait does not condone using other people's email address with this service. Please treat other people's email with respect and don't sign them up for spam regardless of how much you think it would be funny." nod, nod, wink, wink? If not, then why would you put something like this up without doing even a bog-standard email confirmation on the entered email address? Can't tell if trolling or epically naive.

Please don't get me wrong, I didn't write this, and don't endorse it, but I find it interesting.

My suspicion echos yours, particularity based on the name (A play on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jailbait perhaps?)

That said, I think it's an interesting project, and could legitimately be quite useful in the right circumstances.

I'm a SysAdmin- I've had to train and test SPAM filters quite a few times in setting up new systems. (Zimbra/etc)

Creating a throw-away address on the new system, and having this blast it with relevant spam would be very helpful to me.

I do agree they ought to have a confirm-your-email link, though, to prevent abuse.

Re: Mailbait- Fill your inbox with SPAM

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Post by Shank »

georgemcbay wrote: post #2

"MailBait does not condone using other people's email address with this service. Please treat other people's email with respect and don't sign them up for spam regardless of how much you think it would be funny." nod, nod, wink, wink? If not, then why would you put something like this up without doing even a bog-standard email confirmation on the entered email address? Can't tell if trolling or epically naive.

Surely this breaks some TOSs right? Marketers are going to lose revenue by spamming people that don't want it, and they're essentially a spam service. This is pathetic.

Re: Mailbait- Fill your inbox with SPAM

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Post by cmagahern »

georgemcbay wrote: post #2

"MailBait does not condone using other people's email address with this service. Please treat other people's email with respect and don't sign them up for spam regardless of how much you think it would be funny." nod, nod, wink, wink? If not, then why would you put something like this up without doing even a bog-standard email confirmation on the entered email address? Can't tell if trolling or epically naive.

I think a much better way to do this would be to send a confirmation email first. After the user accepts the confirmation email then it continues with the submission. This would prevent potentially evil stuff from happening.

Re: Mailbait- Fill your inbox with SPAM

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Post by K2h »

It looks like the system sends packets to the client computer to process the website posts (signing up for email). The end user is really the person sending the sign ups.

A little side story: I worked with a person that must have made someone really mad. His corporate email account got signed up for some really bad ongoing email and he had to put some really strong filters in place to screen his incoming. It got to the point he couldn't Check his email with someone looking over his shoulder for fear of what they would see In there.

In The end, his filters were so strong not even the bosses email could make it through, and corp. policy wouldn't allow him a new address. It really was a problem.

Well.. At least we thought someone signed him up for email... Who knows.

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