It's interesting the extremes people are going to in dealing with the spam problem.
I just sold a proxy site to a guy on the Digitalpoint forums. I sent him an email with the website files attached and a message confirming that the domain had been transferred to him. I then got an automated email back, asking me to click a confirmation link to prevent my email from being deleted as spam. I then had to fill in a CAPTCHA on the page that appeared (which put my email address on a whitelist, so I wouldn't have to do all this again if I needed to email the guy).
I wonder if we'll see more of this sort of thing as spam becomes more of a problem.
I also wonder how long it will be before the spammer scum start sending similar confirmation emails to trick people into confirming their email address is active. Not long I expect.
I just sold a proxy site to a guy on the Digitalpoint forums. I sent him an email with the website files attached and a message confirming that the domain had been transferred to him. I then got an automated email back, asking me to click a confirmation link to prevent my email from being deleted as spam. I then had to fill in a CAPTCHA on the page that appeared (which put my email address on a whitelist, so I wouldn't have to do all this again if I needed to email the guy).
I wonder if we'll see more of this sort of thing as spam becomes more of a problem.
I also wonder how long it will be before the spammer scum start sending similar confirmation emails to trick people into confirming their email address is active. Not long I expect.