On Jun 22, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Paul Russell wrote:
On 6/22/2009 17:12, Claudio Telmon wrote:
Well, this stream doubling is something many already do, keeping one
address for close friends and business partners, not disclosing it in
order to avoid spam and other messages. But again you're right, the
framework would need reach a critical mass in some time, or it
would be
abandoned even by early adopters.
Back in the day when most spammers obtained addresses by harvesting
them from
web pages, you could, for the most part, keep a mailbox spam-free by
disclosing
your email address only to those from whom you wanted to receive
email. The sun
set on that scene long ago. Spammers generate potential recipient
addresses
based on common names and naming schemes, or harvest them from
address books and
private mail archives on compromised systems. Security by obscurity
seldom
works for very long.
Also any actual usage of an email address leads to it being in a mailbox
on a Windows machine. That, in turn, leads to it being sprayed all over
the internet by viruses, and hence harvested by spammers.
I have lots of uniquely created addresses that were provably not guessed
that get a lot of spam via that route.
Cheers,
Steve
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