Network Programming & Stateful Packet Inspection

From: clintonG (csgallagher_at_REMOVETHISTEXT@metromilwaukee.com)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:40:26 -0500

The discussion is based on the supposition that spammers could point
a stateful packet sniffer at a web server to grab e-mail addresses
contained in outgoing packets.

We all know by observation that when somebody clicks on an
HTML anchor element using the mailto: protocol that doing so will
launch a client mail application and populate a new instance of a
mail message with an e-mail address.

So why have spammers bothered harvesting e-mail addresses from
the body of web pages? 

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         Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin USA
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[1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html
[2] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html
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