On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 16:28 Europe/London, James McIninch wrote:
It would work like this -- I'm going to give an e-mail address out,
perhaps
to someone I don't trust. My MUA asks a forwarding service for a
randomly
generated address to be mapped to my true e-mail address for either
1.) a
specific time period, or 2.) until I ask for it to be revoked. I then
give
the temporary forwarding address to the untrusted party. Once the
forwarding
address ages out or is revoked, the forwarder simply rejects emails to
that
id.
Tagged addresses, temporary addresses, etc. All work well for a bit.
Until your real email address gets out there.
And then you're history.
Look at it this way - you give your mum your real email address,
because you know she's not a spammer. She forwards you a joke, and CC's
a whole bunch of co-workers. One of those co-workers forwards that
email to somewhere that gets archived on the web. And her MUA includes
all those people's email addresses. BAM.
Matt.
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