On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:56:51PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Why not use a separate (but not totally bogus) address? Does your MTA > support address suffixes such as scruloose-debian-user or > scruloose+debian-user? Those are probably the easiest way to hide, and > you don't sacrifice that ability for others to contact you off-list. If > no such suffixes are usable, you could still just get another email > address specifically for list subscriptions that only forwards to your > original address. This still hides your real address without forging a > totally bogus address.
It also allows you to know where folks got your address from if they just throw it in without stripping off the plus or bang path. Gives you another way to procmail your mail to sort it by interest instead of munging, which is always the wrong solution. http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ If your concern is about spam, then do the right thing and report it. Pipe spam through spamassassin -r to mark known spam with Razor/Cloudmark, and check the headers and report as necissary or forward it to your spamcop account (they're free, http://spamcop.net/). -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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