KevMar's Journal: Change is in the wind

How much trust should you give a spammer?

This one spammer sends me to a page that is a form requesting name, address, phone, and email information from me. I made a little script that fills the form with real looking random data and submits it. When the results page loads, I do it again, and again, and ... . I think I saw 2 links go off line in the past few days that I have been doing it.

Well today I get another spam and as I test the page before loading it into my script and I see a remove email address option.

Now I see this and ponder what just happened. Did I just make a spammer place a do not email me link on his site?

all I realy want is for the spam to stop. Can I trust that this spammer has suffered enough abuse and is willing to not send spam to those that do not want it? or is this just a new method for him to collect email addresses?

I have stopped my script for now and "unsubscribed" a new hotmail account that I just created. Lets see how quickly it gets hit.