{"id":53,"date":"2002-12-23T02:04:16","date_gmt":"2002-12-23T08:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/12\/23\/my-uncle-the-spammer\/"},"modified":"2002-12-23T02:04:16","modified_gmt":"2002-12-23T08:04:16","slug":"my-uncle-the-spammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/12\/23\/my-uncle-the-spammer\/","title":{"rendered":"My Uncle the Spammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><B>My Uncle the Spammer<\/B><BR> I <A href=\"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blog\/2002dec.shtml#11_Dec_2002\">mentioned earlier<\/A> 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.<BR>Well yesterday she comes in to see if she has a reply and her mbox is overflowing with crap!<BR>Unamused, I was, as I checked into this aberration.  You know sometimes at the bottom of a web page there&#8217;s a link that says something like &#8220;mail this page to a friend&#8221;? I always wondered a few things about that.  <OL> <LI \/>Does this actually send the page or just the url?  <LI \/>What kind of goof would use this feature instead of just pasting the url into a regular email?  <LI \/>Is it just a scam to reap email addresses to use for nefarious purposes?  <\/OL> The answers are: <OL> <LI \/> It sends the whole freakin&#8217; html-encoded page. Pictures, banners and all.  <LI \/> My Great Uncle.  <LI \/> Yes.  <\/OL> Bah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}