[Gllug] [OT] Asking to be spammed?

[Martin A. Brooks]

On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 10:42 +0000, Benedikt Heinen wrote:
> For old addresses there's probably not much you can do.
> 
> What I've *started* doing now is to assign addresses to specific 
> subdomains that get created for the purpose  (i.e. my current sender 
> address is in a subdomain I'm using for mailing lists). Newer addresses 
> have a sub-domain per address - this has the advantage that if I want to 
> turn it off, I kill the sub-domain, and the spammer cannot even look up 
> the mx for that address any more...

Needing to go to those sort of lengths is sort of the wrong solution. I
don't obfuscate my email address, have used the same address for over 6
years and get perhaps one spam message per week.

It's perfectly possible to build effective filtering rather than having
to deal with a whole rack of email address and subdomains.



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