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Abusable tell-a-friend scripts considered harmful

21-Oct-11

Many websites provide so-called tell-a-friend forms allowing visitors to recommend a page to an acquaintance. Unfortunately, fraudsters and other spammers constantly abuse such forms.

A story about how not to maintain mailing lists

17-Feb-11

Some years ago, I actively traded shares, and at that time, I subscribed to the market information mailing list of a certain bank. As far as I can recall, this went smoothly. However, I recently decided to unsubscribe, and that turned out to be something entirely different.