On 11/09/2014 12:33 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
Hmmm, I imagine many spambots have already made this investment if they're dealing with popular systems that require e-mail address confirmation.
No doubt there are some that do; but it's a very different technical hurdle and the management tradeoff (and intrinsic delay) of an email loop makes huge volume fire-and-forget impossible and rate limits the amount of spamming that can sucessfuly be done - especially if duplicate email addresses are further limited.
I'm not saying this is a good solution in general - or that it's a panacea - but it's worth investigating.
-- Marc