--> Tuesday, February 3, 2004, 4:09:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

>> Additionally, to clarify, I am referring to use in broad public
>> forums.
>>
>> I imagine, out of thin air, that 1 to 3 days might work. But really,
>> I don't know. Is 3 days too much, I don't know. I assume a week
>> is. Maybe people have already experienced immediate spam on
>> addresses with a one day lifetime. I think that is the primary
>> possibility I worry about.

> I used dated addresses for around 2 years, and I found that the only
> times that the address was harvested and exploited before it expired
> was when I posted to Usenet.  This often happened in < 24 hours, so I
> stopped using dated addresses on Usenet.

> Other than Usenet (i.e, mailing lists), you should be fine with nearly
> any reasonable timeout.  I used 8 days and never had a problem as my
> experience was that it took at least weeks to months for the address
> to be harvested from a web archive of the list and then exploited.

My experience on compromised addresses says I would receive spam in
most definitely less than years, and even months, but I put addresses
on business web sites and used to do so without javascript protection.

I think I will just use 3-7 day dated addresses on public websites. I
thought someone would tell me something like "2 weeks is too long, one
week is ok", etc, but I guess spammers just like me. ;-)

Thanks for your input everyone.

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