Define "most" -- not "most" of the ones I use (ten or so). But yes, spammers might should know about it already.
Re Gmail: yes, their spam filtering is pretty good. Not sure how well it would hold up against global forwarding: I get mail to [email protected], [email protected], etc., etc. Gmail's is surely content-based but still... Cheers, ...phsiii -----Original Message----- From: Scott Matthews [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 11:22 AM To: Phil Smith III; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] My favorite email solution... > Some ISPs also support an email name prefix or suffix, so if you're > [email protected], [email protected] will go to joe's inbox. This also lets you > use filters to manage those notes My understanding is that the use of '+' should work with most mail servers -- that said, presumably obnoxious emailers also know about this use of '+' and may remove everything from the '+' to the '@' -- so it's not as bulletproof as separate mailbox names. > Someone is about to reply saying, "But SPAM...!" Per my suggestion, I use Google as the mail service -- and their spam filter is great -- very little spam get through, and there are very few false positive (though there are false positives, so I do check the spam filter every few days). _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
