On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:11:00AM -0700, Pat Lashley wrote:
> Now, what if a bunch of people were to set up pages with lists of hidden
> bogus mailto addresses where the domain part was a randomly constructed
> non-existant domain? The spammers would wind up trying to send to
> VeriSign's sitefinder host because VeriSign's DNS servers would be
> claiming that is the right IP address for that domain...
That sounded like a good idea, so I wrote this:
www.forkqueue.com/forkverisign
Written in Perl it generates random email addresses at certified non-existent
domains. Should Verisign see the error of their ways it will magically stop
working.
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Sam Bashton
Systems Administrator
IP Support