terrible, nasty idea...

[David Relson]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:24:24 -0400
Bob Vincent wrote:

> Okay, I've done it.
> 
> See http://pillars.net/spammers.html for details.
> 
> I made a static text copy of the listinfo page before posting it to
> Slashdot (just in case the story gets accepted), but the
> subscribe/unsubscribe links work as advertised.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:55:12PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> >
> > A quick bit of grep'ing and sed'ing shows 791 unique unsubscribe
> > addresses in my email this year.  The list includes gems like:
> > 
> 
> Would you please post your grep and sed recipe? I'd like to run it
> against my spam archive, as well.
> 
> BTW, I've added "unsubscribe at mailestate.com" and
> "unsubscribe at valuevalet.com" to the spammers list.

Bob,

The latest iteration of the script is below.  It's still rough around
the edges, but should get you started.

David

DIRS="~/Archive/2004/*.s"
grep -r mailto:unsubscribe $DIRS | \
 tee /tmp/mailto:unsubscribe | \
 sed s/.*mailto:// | \
 sed "s/[\?=\"\'\>\ ].*//" | \
 sort -u | \
 tee /tmp/addrs | \
 wc -l