> Rather than leaving the barn door wide open with a catch-all address, > why not use a variation of the wild-card addressing scheme described > earlier in this thread? Tell customer "a" that they can use addresses > in the form "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", customer "b" that they can use > addresses in the form "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and so on.
Hm, but I'm not commercial - this idea of being able to pick a random fun address is just for my personal amusement, but I never remember that I can do it. Maybe I'll just turn it off - I don't know, I'm in no real rush. I have received at most one spam mail addressed to my real address -- which is given at the footer of every page on the site as a mailto: link -- within about 5-6 months of the site going live, so that gives you an idea about how obscure my site is to most of the world. My previous site, when I was at my ISP space, generated next to no spam after being up over two years, again with my e-mail address very public. Most of my spam seems to be either directed webmaster@ or sales@, or comes from what looked to be a dictionary attack at my ISP. (my account in SIMS gets a bit of spam, but mostly it's being targeted by viri) What I have done, though, is set my address to contain HTML entities. I don't see any reason why spammers could possibly be fooled by that trick now, but still. > Since this is a SIMS discussion list and you didn't say that you're _not_ > doing this on a SIMS server, we assumed (reasonably, I think) that you > _were_ doing it with SIMS. Since you're not, it's really off-topic for this > list. Nor was the original question in the thread SIMS-specific, or the stuff that followed. My mention of using [EMAIL PROTECTED] was purely anecdotal - I wasn't here looking for ways to fix my site. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
