26 Jun
2004
26 Jun
'04
11:03 a.m.
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 01:35:30AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Another thing I do in the war against spam is use different names within my mx domain to subscribe to each service. So when for example I registered to ebay I used ebay@mydomain.com the ALUG is aluglist@mydomain.com and so on.
This has two benefits, firstly when I do get spam I can tell where they harvested my address from, and secondly when the spam level gets too high for
Quite a few spammers now use things like ebay@domain as part of dictionary attacks etc. etc. so the system isn't infallible, what you /really/ want to do is have amazon1999@ for ebay and ebay2002@ for amazon etc. just to obfuscate it a bit more :)
Adam
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