Subject: RE: [hackers-il] Spam, spam, wonderful spam

From: Chen Shapira <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 17:01:06 +0200

> There's the nasty <IMG SRC="an-encoding-of-your-email-address.jpg">
> trick that auto-confirms your address doesn't bounce. I never accept
> HTML mail.

oh. with the basehref it'll try to download your email from their site,
showing up in the error log. Nice one.
 
> > > <basehref=3D"http://www.mn285.COME.CC/il2/@216.71.84.44/enter.
> > > cgi" method=3D= "get">
> > this part is plain illegal.
> > BTW. was the "=3D" in the original? 
> 
> It's quoted-printable, iso-8859-1. =3D is just "=".

the =3d is ok, but 2 <html> tags aren't :-)
 
> > 2. The JS defines two functions d() and codeit() 
> > then uses a third one decode()
> > 
> > in short the JS does nil. 
> > unless I got something wrong. It is only used in the 
> begining btw. not
> > called afterwards. 
> 
> Hmmm. I didn't attempt to despaghettize it yet. Plus its javascript.

Not to start a language war, but javascript is a nice scripting language,
pretty strong too.
It has error handling (try/catch), regexps, you can write your own objects
(no inheretence though)... its not just bouncing pictures toy anymore. I
wrote many programs using javascript, there's very little you can't easily
do with it. (it does use Java's ugly date object. Yuck)

and for the disclaimer: I do admit that
python/c/c++/scheme/lisp/perl/java/forth/apl/ps/$your_language_of_choice is
much much better.

I do think its strange to see so much code in spamail, especially when its
not used... :-)