On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 10:02:03AM +0100, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
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 :)
I was receiving a steady stream of spam to sales@ and info@ until I put a bounce on them. The bounce on my Usenet email address politely informs senders to try again with a different username for me.
I don't even trust you guys with my usual email address, and a good thing too since I found all our email addresses plastered all over the ALUG archive website.
Tim.