On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 01:58:43PM +0930, David Lloyd wrote:
[...]
> > - Avoid giving away your real email to user forum groups like deja,
>
> OK. So what e-mail are you going to give? A false one, or a free one
> from YAHOO or HOTMAIL?
[...]
Something like that. The big advantage of this is that you can trace
where the spammer got your mail address from and you can filter your
secondary. tertiary, etc. address in a more restrictive way, as you
wouldn't expect too much traffic on it. I for example bounce/drop all
Bcc's to those addresses - success quote 100% so far (i.e. 100% of all
Bcc's sent to that address were indeed spam). Unfortunately, the
spammers are copping on and don't use Bcc that often anymore.
One problem I find arising more and more often is that spams are
addresses correctly, i.e. "To: MYADDRESS" instead of using Bcc or Cc -
those spams are a lot harder to filter...
My EUR0.02,
Thomas
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