On Monday 26 May 2003 16:33, Andrew Shore wrote:
AS> One "technical" solution that would discourage spam would be to
AS> add a key (a text string, for example) to the email header. The
AS> user gives out their email address with different keys to
AS> different groups of people; if a key attracts spam, all they
AS> have to do is stop accepting mail with that key. It would also
AS> make organising mail very easy. On the negative side, the extra
AS> complexity might prove challenging for some...
http://www.sneakemail.com supplies something along those lines. You can
use their generated addresses for purposes such as posting to Usenet,
posting to web forums, posting to mailing lists, signing up for various
offers whose offerors you don't quite trust with your real address,
etc.... and if an address starts accumulating spam, not only can you
shut it off, you get an excellent clue how you were exposed.
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David J. Aronson, unemployed Software Engineer in Washington DC area.
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