OT: spamming tech question
Michael ODonnell
michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Sun Apr 10 19:57:00 EDT 2005
> FWIW, as a DNS query is not guaranteed to hit the authoritative
> nameserver every time, spammers are more likely looking at the
> "Host:" header your HTTP/1.0-compliant User Agent is sending to
> their web server when you request the resource.
Since the spammer only "knows" me by my email address
and is unlikely to ba able to correlate the Host: values
reported by a browser with my email addr, I'm thinking
that Host: value isn't of much interest. Further, if my
browser is behind a firewall that hostname is likely even
more useless to them.
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