On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 10:36:19PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> You have to be careful, though. For several years on one of my lists
> I had a subscriber whose address was something like (I don't recall
> exactly) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which was a
> perfectly valid address and at which he/she/it did receive mail and
> from which he/she/it would reply.
Agreed, care is needed in order to avoid false positives. ("nobody",
by the way, is often aliased thus in stock sendmail installations
on various 'nix boxes:
nobody: /dev/null
so while there's nothing wrong with it per se -- and it's not a
special address per RFC 2142 -- I find myself wondering how many
people have hardwired it into various anti-spam setups. ;-) )
I should probably mention that I'm not a fan of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and similar addresses, which seem to be often used these days for
one-way mailing lists: I think *all* messages should be replyable.
But I figure that, as a practical matter, as long as so many sites
are using that convention, we might as well leverage it to our
advantage.
---Rsk
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