Spambots are not immune to bugs

by dez on May 22, 2009 · 0 comments

in Testing

wrongApparently, spambots are in need of a QA runthrough periodically.

I received the following message to my dezlessons email today responding from one of my craigslist postings for piano/violin lessons that I teach.

ReplyTo: cl-beta@mailnator.com
From:
craigslist toolpanel (cl-beta@mailnator.com)
Subject:
Piano Lessons (Disco

Error in parsing this message. Couldn’t display the body part!!!

Just goes to show you, a little QA goes a long way to not getting your email displayed and linked to inside a web-tester’s blog.  Now all the spam bots that visit my site can farm this email and spam the spammers!

–dez

Update: You’ll have a better chance of having spambots bypassing you if you anonymize your email.  Don’t list your email in the body of text.  Craigslist’s filters are more aware than you think of sending out spam emails.  And make sure to report if one does get through.

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