OT for a dumb question-who here writes code?

[hitman]

Was wondering how hard it is to write a simple program for what I have in mind.

[SuperKungFu]

lol depends how "simple" it is.

[Caretaker]

Indeed... "it depends" is quite an accurate answer :p

[hitman]

id call it return to sender..

 

what im talkin about is an antispam program that sends the offending email back to sender 60 times a minute to clog up their server...

 

how simple would that be?

[GGTharos]

Aside from how simple it would be, it would also be pretty stupid given the fact that the spammer can use email relays which are relatively innocent as well as the fact that they often forget the reply-tos, so you're just as likely to utterly spam someone who's not involved, or spam yourself with a whole bunch of bounce-backs.

[hitman]

im thinkin it would work with them emails comin to me from nigeria.

[GGTharos]

Not even worth your time; you're better off using a junk filter.

[Caretaker]

The mails may say they come from Nigeria but that doesn't mean they do. SMTP protocol relies on the sender to identify himself, which is obviously nothing a spammer would want to do. So you might cause a lot of collateral damage, including your own mailbox, without hitting the target.

 

As for the problem of writing a script that sends a mail thousands of times, that's pretty simple. Just not very useful (except if you want to get a hold in the spamming business yourself ;))

[hitman]

ok

was just a thought :)

[hitman]

on a side not i was also gonna ask another one....how does one learn how to make 3d models? point a wayward soul in the right direction here? :D

[GGTharos]

Try the 3D modelling forums? :D

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

there is programs that can do that for you ;)

 

better still, use a program that identifys spam emails and blocks then from being downloaded from the server to your pc and evens deletes them from the server once you have checked your mail box, and the ones that are not downloaded will be deleted.

 

As if you do get a shitload of spam, the chances are, the email address that they are coming from have been infected and are being controlled by someone else, so as gg says, what you want to do will 99% of the time go to someone who hasnt got a clue that there email account is being used to spam u, thus you be spamming the wrong person.

 

also if you use outlook or outlook express, then websites get your email address from that if your account is setup on the pc, thats why i use web based email now, = no spam and they got 0 hope in hell of obtaining my email address. If your account is windows based, then just looking at a website can give them your email address.

 

Stop looking at p0rn sites if your getting spammed bigtime, thats the numero uno way of getting picked up to be spammed.

[TucksonSonny]

id call it return to sender..

 

what im talkin about is an antispam program that sends the offending email back to sender 60 times a minute to clog up their server...

 

how simple would that be?

 

You can also think about a program like “Norton Internet Security”

(BTW, you can disable this while flying FC or stop all the Norton services completely in XP if you don’t want to lose that 1 extra FPS)

[lunanera]

I started in school with this stuff

 

but I didn't get very far :icon_pidu