What's going on here?

[Kent Feiler]

I'm using a CGI program to process a form that contains a Textarea.
Someone is putting some peculiar looking stuff in the Textarea and
submitting the form. The stuff doesn't seem to be hurting anything
and I'm going to dump the messages into the bitbucket, but I'm curious
as to what the sender is trying to accomplish and what some of this
coding is all about.


6zT1EF <a href="http://foglwvddmcex.co m/">foglwvddm cex</a>,
puyxdtveunuq,
[link=http://egpdclwiicek.co m/]egpdclwiicek[/link],

http://jvzfqjvxeokv.com/

Particularly, what's the stuff in the square brackets? It looks like
a variation on HTML.

And is there any way this stuff could be executed out of a Textarea?


Regards,


Kent Feiler

https://www.KentFeiler.com

[Jim Moe]

Re: What's going on here?

On 09/22/08 09:52 am, Kent Feiler wrote:

I'm using a CGI program to process a form that contains a Textarea.
Someone is putting some peculiar looking stuff in the Textarea and
submitting the form.
>
6zT1EF <a href="http://foglwvddmcex.co m/">foglwvddm cex</a>,
puyxdtveunuq,
[link=http://egpdclwiicek.co m/]egpdclwiicek[/link],

http://jvzfqjvxeokv.com/

>

It's spammer trying to use your form to send spam. The junk in the
textarea is just junk filler. It's the email address that you must look at
to be sure it is not being filled with long lists of addresses for
forwarding by your account.

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[Sherm Pendley]

Re: What's going on here?

Kent Feiler <zzzz@zzzz.comw rites:

6zT1EF <a href="http://foglwvddmcex.co m/">foglwvddm cex</a>,
puyxdtveunuq,
[link=http://egpdclwiicek.co m/]egpdclwiicek[/link],

http://jvzfqjvxeokv.com/

>
Particularly, what's the stuff in the square brackets? It looks like
a variation on HTML.

A lot of discussion forum software disallow real HTML, and allow a
small handful of markup using square brackets instead. It then uses
the square-bracket markup to generate real HTML when the messages are
being displayed.

And is there any way this stuff could be executed out of a Textarea?

No, it's just spam.

sherm--

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[Kent Feiler]

Re: What's going on here?

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:56:59 -0700, Jim Moe
<jmm-list.AXSPAMGN@s ohnen-moe.comwrote:

On 09/22/08 09:52 am, Kent Feiler wrote:

I'm using a CGI program to process a form that contains a Textarea.
Someone is putting some peculiar looking stuff in the Textarea and
submitting the form.
>
6zT1EF <a href="http://foglwvddmcex.co m/">foglwvddm cex</a>,
puyxdtveunuq,
[link=http://egpdclwiicek.co m/]egpdclwiicek[/link],

http://jvzfqjvxeokv.com/

>

It's spammer trying to use your form to send spam. The junk in the
textarea is just junk filler. It's the email address that you must
look at to be sure it is not being filled with long lists of addresses
for forwarding by your account.
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Sorry, I'm still in the ozone here. To make sure we're on the same
track, I'm talking about an HTML <TEXTAREAinpu t field inside an
HTML <FORMsent by a browser. As far as I can see, No email
addresses anywhere.

If this is spam, it's an interesting kind. I generally expect spam to
inform me that I've just won the National Lottery in Paraguay. I
guess this idea of this must be that someone receives it in an email
and then clicks on one of the links???


Regards,


Kent Feiler

https://www.KentFeiler.com

[Sherm Pendley]

Re: What's going on here?

Kent Feiler <zzzz@zzzz.comw rites:

If this is spam, it's an interesting kind. I generally expect spam to
inform me that I've just won the National Lottery in Paraguay. I
guess this idea of this must be that someone receives it in an email
and then clicks on one of the links???

The spammer is trying to push his Google Rank score by adding links to
his site.

sherm--

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[Sherm Pendley]

Re: What's going on here?

Kent Feiler <zzzz@zzzz.comw rites:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:01:47 -0400, Sherm Pendley
<spamtrap@dot-app.orgwrote:
>
A lot of discussion forum software disallow real HTML, and allow a
small handful of markup using square brackets instead. It then uses
the square-bracket markup to generate real HTML when the messages are
being displayed.
>

>And is there any way this stuff could be executed out of a Textarea?

>
No, it's just spam.
>
sherm--
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What on earth is that? Please, quote properly by adding '>' at the
start of each line of text.

Thanks for your reply. I think you're saying that some newsgroups
would translate the square bracket stuff to HTML links

No, that's not what I said. If I'd meant "newsgroups " I would have
said "newsgroups ." Web-based discussion forums sometimes require one
to use square bracket markup to create links, embed images, etc.,
because they don't allow real HTML markup.

sherm--

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[Blinky the Shark]

Re: What's going on here?

Sherm Pendley wrote:

Kent Feiler <zzzz@zzzz.comw rites:
>

>On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:01:47 -0400, Sherm Pendley
><spamtrap@do t-app.orgwrote:
>>
>A lot of discussion forum software disallow real HTML, and allow a
>small handful of markup using square brackets instead. It then uses
>the square-bracket markup to generate real HTML when the messages are
>being displayed.
>>

>>And is there any way this stuff could be executed out of a Textarea?

>>
>No, it's just spam.
>>
>sherm--
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

>
What on earth is that? Please, quote properly by adding '>' at the
start of each line of text.

To Kent Feiler: And millions of Agent users have their client set to do
that, so no, it's no bother quoting doing it the right way.


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[Blinky the Shark]

Re: What's going on here?

Kent Feiler wrote:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:01:47 -0400, Sherm Pendley
<spamtrap@dot-app.orgwrote:
>
Kent Feiler <zzzz@zzzz.comw rites:
>

>6zT1EF <a href="http://foglwvddmcex.co m/">foglwvddm cex</a>,
>puyxdtveunuq,
>[link=http://egpdclwiicek.co m/]egpdclwiicek[/link],
>http://jvzfqjvxeokv.com/
>>
>Particularly , what's the stuff in the square brackets? It looks like
>a variation on HTML.

>
A lot of discussion forum software disallow real HTML, and allow a
small handful of markup using square brackets instead. It then uses
the square-bracket markup to generate real HTML when the messages are
being displayed.
>

>And is there any way this stuff could be executed out of a Textarea?

>
No, it's just spam.
>
sherm--
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>
Sherm,
>
Thanks for your reply. I think you're saying that some newsgroups

No, he said discussion forums. Web forums.


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[Kent Feiler]

Re: What's going on here?

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:43:17 -0700, Blinky the Shark
<no.spam@box.in validwrote:

Kent Feiler wrote:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:01:47 -0400, Sherm Pendley
<spamtrap@dot-app.orgwrote:
>
Kent Feiler <zzzz@zzzz.comw rites:
>

>6zT1EF <a href="http://foglwvddmcex.co m/">foglwvddm cex</a>,
>puyxdtveunuq,
>[link=http://egpdclwiicek.co m/]egpdclwiicek[/link],
>http://jvzfqjvxeokv.com/
>>
>Particularly , what's the stuff in the square brackets? It looks like
>a variation on HTML.

>
A lot of discussion forum software disallow real HTML, and allow a
small handful of markup using square brackets instead. It then uses
the square-bracket markup to generate real HTML when the messages are
being displayed.
>

>And is there any way this stuff could be executed out of a Textarea?

>
No, it's just spam.
>
sherm--
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>
Sherm,
>
Thanks for your reply. I think you're saying that some newsgroups

No, he said discussion forums. Web forums.
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I guess I thought that newsgroups and discussion forums were the same
thing. comp.infosystem s is a newsgroup, or maybe a collection of
newsgroups, yes? So what's an example of a discussion forum?


Regards,


Kent Feiler

https://www.KentFeiler.com

[Blinky the Shark]

Re: What's going on here?

Kent Feiler wrote:

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:43:17 -0700, Blinky the Shark
<no.spam@box.in validwrote:
>
Kent Feiler wrote:
>

>On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:01:47 -0400, Sherm Pendley
><spamtrap@do t-app.orgwrote:
>>
>Kent Feiler <zzzz@zzzz.comw rites:
>>

>>6zT1EF <a href="http://foglwvddmcex.co m/">foglwvddm cex</a>,
>>puyxdtveunuq,
>>[link=http://egpdclwiicek.co m/]egpdclwiicek[/link],
>>http://jvzfqjvxeokv.com/
>>>
>>Particularl y, what's the stuff in the square brackets? It looks like
>>a variation on HTML.

>>
>A lot of discussion forum software disallow real HTML, and allow a
>small handful of markup using square brackets instead. It then uses
>the square-bracket markup to generate real HTML when the messages are
>being displayed.
>>

>>And is there any way this stuff could be executed out of a Textarea?

>>
>No, it's just spam.
>>
>sherm--
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>Sherm,
>>
>Thanks for your reply. I think you're saying that some newsgroups

>
No, he said discussion forums. Web forums.
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>
I guess I thought that newsgroups and discussion forums were the same
thing. comp.infosystem s is a newsgroup, or maybe a collection of
newsgroups, yes? So what's an example of a discussion forum?

comp.infosystem s.* is a hierarchy of newsgroups.

This is an example of a web-based forum:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1030

It's on the web, see.


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