My Uncle the Spammer
I mentioned earlier that I had set Granny up with a shell at the house. She had a brand-new virgin email account and sent exactly one email. To her brother.
Well yesterday she comes in to see if she has a reply and her mbox is overflowing with crap!
Unamused, I was, as I checked into this aberration. You know sometimes at the bottom of a web page there’s a link that says something like “mail this page to a friend”? I always wondered a few things about that.

1. Does this actually send the page or just the url?
2. What kind of goof would use this feature instead of just pasting the url into a regular email?
3. Is it just a scam to reap email addresses to use for nefarious purposes?

1. It sends the whole freakin’ html-encoded page. Pictures, banners and all.
2. My Great Uncle.
3. Yes.