I would be really surprised at anyone trying to spam through a forum. Come on... there are easier ways of doing so... It is not worth the trouble.

Every conceivable way of obfuscating the trail between the spammer and the recipient works to the spammer's advantage.

Are you saying he will be filling in email addresses one by one (only send to one option...) for hundreds, thousands, and millions of people he wants to spam?

No, he'd have purchased a list somewhere, probably on CD-ROM, containing all those addresses "pre-typed", and probably paid around $100 or so for the list.

If he has so many email addresses I really doubt he does not know of a better way to spam.

Actually, there IS no better way to spam. The mail-header trail from the recipient back to the spammer ends at the w3t site (since it originated the e-mail) .. again, any obfuscation of the sender works to the spammer's advantage.

as I say, I cant imagine one with such a bad life.

... spammers suck. Our opinion of them will not necessarily change that. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

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