Jeff Macdonald writes: > It is most annoying when sign up forms > don't allow + as I use it as a way to tag my address with a vendor's > name (ie [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Palm). If mail comes from somewhere besides > the vendor - well, then you know he sold your address.
Two comments: 1: I wouldn't be surprised if spammers strip out "+detail" from their list of email addresses, either to be more annoying or else to increase the size of their "unique email list". 2: If you're relying upon this technique to filter out future spam, you're probably going to be disappointed. If "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@blah" gets sold to a spammer, you can be sure that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is going to start getting spam, and you won't know who sold your address. Full disclosure: I have a friend who started a business (http://www.emailias.com/) that provides a service (for a fee) that provides email addresses that get around this problem. Regards, --kevin PS On a related note, I hacked together the following SpamAssassin rules the other day. I pass them along in the hopes that others will find them to be useful. YMMV. I hope that I'm on some people's whitelists... (-: body XANAX /\bxanax\b/i describe XANAX Plugs Xanax score XANAX 1.5 body CIALIS /\bcialis\b/i describe CIALIS Plugs Cialis score CIALIS 1.5 body OBFUSCATED_VIAGRA /(?:\b|super|mega)(?:v|\\\/).?[i1!|[EMAIL PROTECTED]@a].?(?:\d+|\b)/i body OBFUSCATED_CIALIS /(?:\b|super|mega)c.?[i1!|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|].?s.?(?:\d+|\b)/i body OBFUSCATED_VALIUM /(?:\b|super|mega)(?:v|\\\/)[EMAIL PROTECTED]|].?u.?m.?(?:\d+|\b)/i body OBFUSCATED_OXYCONTIN /(?:\b|super|mega)[o0].?x.?y.?c.?[o0].?n.?t.?[i1!|].?n.?(?:\d+|\b)/i body OBFUSCATED_VICODIN /(?:\b|super|mega)(?:v|\\\/).?[i1!|].?c.?[o0].?d.?[i1!|].?n.?(?:\d+|\b)/i body OBFUSCATED_PERCOCET /(?:\b|super|mega)p.?e.?r.?c.?[o0].?c.?e.?t.?(?:\d+|\b)/i body OBFUSCATED_OXYCODONE /(?:\b|super|mega)[o0].?x.?y.?c.?[o0].?d.?[o0].?n.?e.?(?:\d+|\b)/i body OBFUSCATED_XANAX /(?:\b|super|mega)[EMAIL PROTECTED]@].?x.?\b/i describe OBFUSCATED_VIAGRA Attempts to hide a drug name with garbage describe OBFUSCATED_CIALIS Attempts to hide a drug name with garbage describe OBFUSCATED_VALIUM Attempts to hide a drug name with garbage describe OBFUSCATED_OXYCONTIN Attempts to hide a drug name with garbage describe OBFUSCATED_VICODIN Attempts to hide a drug name with garbage describe OBFUSCATED_PERCOCET Attempts to hide a drug name with garbage describe OBFUSCATED_OXYCODONE Attempts to hide a drug name with garbage describe OBFUSCATED_XANAX Attempts to hide a drug name with garbage score OBFUSCATED_VIAGRA 2.3 score OBFUSCATED_CIALIS 2.3 score OBFUSCATED_VALIUM 2.3 score OBFUSCATED_OXYCONTIN 2.3 score OBFUSCATED_VICODIN 2.3 score OBFUSCATED_PERCOCET 2.3 score OBFUSCATED_OXYCODONE 2.3 score OBFUSCATED_XANAX 2.3 body BOOSTS_GAS_MILEAGE /(?:boosts?|increases?)\s+gas(?:oline)? mileage/i score BOOSTS_GAS_MILEAGE 1.0 body FUEL_SAVER_PRO /Fuel Saver Pro/i score FUEL_SAVER_PRO 1.0 body LEGALLY_ORDAINED_MINISTER /LEGALLY ORDAINED MINISTER/i score LEGALLY_ORDAINED_MINISTER 1.0 body MARRY_YOUR_RELATIVE /marry your (?:brother|sister|father|mother|son|daughter)/i score MARRY_YOUR_RELATIVE 1.5 body OBFUSCATED_EBAY_SCAM /\bF.?[o0q].?r.?t.?u.?n.?e\s+W.?[i1!|[EMAIL PROTECTED])/i score OBFUSCATED_EBAY_SCAM 2.3 -- Kevin D. Clark / Cetacean Networks / Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) cetaceannetworks.com!kclark (GnuPG ID: B280F24E) alumni.unh.edu!kdc _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
