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["David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net>]

hey folks, 

i believe someone proposed the idea during one of our "bitch about spam" 
sessions that these greeting card sites are somehow being used by spammers to 
harvest the addresses entered and send more spam to those poor recipients.

here is something from the MAPS site related to that idea:
http://mail-abuse.org/gc_rbl.html

while they do not go as far to suggest that the addys are being captured, 
they 
do mention that spammers are using these services to send mail to lists of 
addresses that they already got from some other evil software.

MAPS makes suggestions to the greeting card sites that they implement changes 
which would make it more difficult to abuse these services. i don't know if 
the 
greeting card sites are listening, tho. one can only hope. the editor of this 
page also seems to be fond of the word "origionator" which i cannot find in 
any 
of my various dictionaries. oh, nit-picky me. 

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