Re: people are definately starting to harvest emailadresses on this list...

[Russ Allbery]

markd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Indeed this is an excellent strategy - if done properly. The problem is,
> a lot of people don't have the ability to capture all addresses in a
> domain - and of course user-random@domain is trivially defeated by a
> competent slicer and dicer if user@domain is valid.

There's a simple solution to that.  Use user@domain as another spam trap
and have your *real* address that you give out to people who you want to
have a stable address be user-<something>@domain and be careful about
revealing that <something>.  :)

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>