On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Theodore Ruegsegger <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan O'Donovan wrote: >> Just in case anyone here isn't aware of this, you can also use disposable >> email address' with Google's gmail. > ... >> your.account+<boxnet>@gmail.com > > I certainly wasn't aware of it. Looks like a nice trick; I tried it > and it worked (I omitted the angle brackets, assuming you meant them > to indicate a variable). > > But how is this address disposable? I can see that if I get spam at > [email protected] I'll know that boxnet compromised the > address but, having established that, how do I "dispose" of the > address? Do you mean I add a line in my filters to reject any mail > with that address? > > Hmm...after writing the above and thinking about it, I guess that must > be exactly what you mean! Works for me. Thanks for a good tip. I sure > missed the old mailshell.com service. > > Thinking about it some more, as this becomes generally known, won't > spammers simply add a script truncate any gmail address with a + in > it, yielding a valid and no-longer-traceable address? Or can we count > on them to be really, really lazy?
foo+variable is not new, although it isn't very widely used. Spammer should already be working around it, although I guess they don't. I find its a less useful trick though due to a large number of websites not allowing + in email addresses even though the RFC allows them. Google also allows you to insert . characters in your e-mail addresses. username, user.name, u.sername, etc are all the same account. You can only get a few uses out of that trick though. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
