On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Paul Chvostek wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:59:48PM -0500, Bram Kivenko -- Kivco Consulting
Inc. wrote:
When giving out my email address to corporate websites likely to sell my
email address, I typically use the form:
<corporation>_tracer@<domain>
My approach is to use plussed addresses, so I don't have to set up
specific aliases for every different thing to which I submit an email
address. paul+isp(_at_)it(_dot_)ca is my email address on the isp- mailing
lists,
I'm paul+squirrelmail(_at_)it(_dot_)ca on those lists, etc. If I don't set up
explicite handling for the stuff to the right of the '+', procmail
still plops it into my default folder.
Be careful with this. Based on the unknown-user notices that come to the
postmaster here, it's a farily common "address scrubbing" botch for
spammers to either drop the plus sign and mash the two parts of the
address together, or to use only what's to the right of it. So if you
don't choose the plussed part carefully, you'll just direct the spam to
somebody else.
I've even seen some legitimate mailing lists get confused by plussed
addresses, probably because they're using web-based list maintenance tools
and the plus gets treated as if it were in a URL. (Try putting a plussed
address in a mailto: link and then clicking on it from IE5).
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