On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Don Lee wrote:
Counter-question: why is alias-style forwarding, i.e. the ability to set
MAIL FROM to whatever you like, so important to preserve? What does it
give you that you cannot also achieve in a different way?
Ironically, the reason I cling to this is because I want
control of what e-mail address(es) I expose. aka. I don't want to
let the spammers get my *real* address, so I use several, for
different purposes. Note the MAIL FROM on this post..... :-(
The day I can't give out my real address is the day I stop using email.
I grab the bull by the horns and make my real email public, and get 11000+
spams a day as a result. However, this makes testing new milter code much
easier. :-) All but a few 100 of the 11000 are rejected in SMTP envelope, the
remaining spams end up in a quarantine. I see one every day or so that
makes it through (usually by quoting a slashdot article in its
entirety and adding a jpg at the end). There are commercial services
that do as good a job for the non-technical enduser. (e.g. spamsoap.com).
So, the time/money required to delete the spam is just a cost of using email.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
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