[Herts] black hole emails

Tony Friis tony-lug at friis.co.uk
Tue Mar 7 10:46:44 GMT 2006


I found another solution to where to send unwanted emails.
My ISP provides an email address -

     blackhole at abuse.<ISPdomain>

Very useful. Perhaps yours does too.

Tony


Tony Friis wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Does anyone know how to send an email to oblivion?
> I have an ISP who lets me use any number of emails in front of my domain 
> name, such as this at friis.co.uk that at friis.co.uk or theother at friis.co.uk 
> one or two of these (say that at friis.co.uk) now collect so much spam I 
> just want to throw them all away. At present I use an email rule in 
> Thunderbird to send them straight to trash, but I still have to empty 
> them from the trash.
> 
> My ISP lets me redirect any particular address like that at friis.co.uk 
> wherever I want, I was hoping to redirect it to somewhere like - perhaps
> 
>     blackhole at null.com
> 
> but I don't know if there is any such email address?
> 
> Has anyone heard of such an address, or any other ideas
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
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