Re: porn emails

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:51:17 -0800

Except it could go to someone else as long as you use a legitimate domain
name. By the same token, it uses up bandwidth.

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"Scott M." <s-mar@BADSPAMsnet.net> wrote in message 
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>> I don't think so. The OP was advocating using a false address that, on
>> the example given, could equally have been some else's real address. Not
>> something they would thank you for.
>
> If someone tries to send me email at 
> Scott@REMOVETHISBEFORESENDINGsnet.net,
> then they deserve to get their email lost in the shuffle. If there 
> actually
> is someone with that address, then they can easily ignore it and will
> probably realize that they should maybe have used a different address to
> begin with.
>
> Look at 99% of the email addresses used in these ng posts.  This is a 
> normal
> convention.  It's not bad advice, it's very sound advice.
>
>> My ISP filters using Brightmail and I get about 2 or 3 spam emails a
>> week, so hardly a problem.
>> I don't think that adding BADSPAM to a domain name is a particularly
>> foolproof method of fooling spammers as I'm sure they read munging
>> recommendations like any one else and automatically removing
>> combinations of BAD, SPAM, NO etc. from trawled addresses isn't a
>> difficult task.  Also, an ISP may well have an AUP that prohibits use of
>> invalid domain names and the news server I use (nothing to do with my
>> ISP) blocks subscriber posts that don't come from a valid domain.  In
>> any event, if that's the way one wishes to go then simply adding
>> .invalid to a domain name creates an "officially valid" false domain.
>
> You are speaking in generalities.  We all don't use your email software 
> and
> we all don't use your ISP.  I feel comfortable that BADSPAM is sufficient 
> to
> prevent spambots from picking up my real address.  If someone doesn't feel
> that this is sufficient, they can certainly get more creative.
>
>> I wouldn't want an anti-spam method that required my correspondents to
>> jump through hoops to reply to my real address so I would use an
>> appropriate invalid address in the From field and new real address in
>> the Reply-To Field.
>
> Ok, that's you.  I thiink if you look at the vast majority of posts here,
> you'll see that this is not a common concern.  It's really not jumping
> though a hoop to highlight and hit delete.
>
>> I never use OE.
>
> And this means than no one does?  The instructions were for OE, but the
> principal works in virtually any newsreader.
>
> It just sounds like you want to be argumentative and are not really 
> offering
> any useful advice to the OP.
>
> 

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