On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:51:06 +0000, Luke Russell Anderson BSc. Hons luke@skappa55.gotadsl.co.uk wrote:
Then, when you are giving your email address to a company or submit it to a mailing list, simply state it is companyOrMailingListName@yourdomain.com. Jurgen gave the example of giving ones e-mail address to Canon Cameras where you would give them canon@yourdomain.com. The idea being that you can identify which company has sold your e-mail address, and/or block e-mail based on the "To:" Field.
There is flaw in this scheme - what if you want to continue receiving email on that address? Spammers find your email address in the ALUG archive, you block it, then you never receive another ALUG email again.
It is useful to use different email addresses for different websites to help notice which ones leak to spammers, but you're still going to need a good filter.
One question though, how can you counter those who send e-mails out to you via the "bcc:" field?
The headers usually say "Envelope-to: me@example.com"
Regards, Tim.