Do us a favor and explain what you plan to do with this. On its face it looks like you're either asking for help with e-mail marketi spam or some sort of "hacking".

Anyone who cared enough about this kind of "privacy" could easily take measures to prevent publication of such information. Relying on senders of unsolicited email to not know something as simple as this is ridiculous and counter-productive. If You want to make a difference, lobby your representatives, write better anti-spam tools, and organize other interested individuals. Just don't try a half-ass attempt at appearing as if you're making a difference, while really accomplishing nothing. If you do that you're no better than this post.

Sure it accomplished something. As an act of rhetoric it communicated some disapproval to the original poster and potentially convinced other people not to contribute as well. Its called persuasion.

I do take those precautions. I don't use outlook, I don't give out my email to webpages, or people I don't trust. I also voice my disapproval and refuse to help people who want to violate my rights. As diotalevi pointed out... I am accomplishing something. I know I can't teach the world to stop this at their end, so why not just not help the spammers?

feanor_269

Please, I want more spam! Can you send me some? Also, I love those pop-ups on my Windows box. Can you send me those too?

All you do is send an HTML email with a reference to an image on a server you control (in an image tag is the simplest). The information is then sent in the request for that image. Just simple HTML, no Perl needed.

Doing this is no more "evil" than HTML email is. There are legitimate uses for it. No need to let your anti-spam fanaticism cloud your judgement. Flame away if you want though.