From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 17:15:22 MDT
> > btw, is it possible, if you are running your own
> mailserver, to create
> > yourself a new address, kill the old one, and put your new
> address in
> > the
> > error message that your mailserver produces when people try
> to use the
> > old
> > address? That way, humans who send you an email to the
> wrong account
> > will
> > get a message telling them the address you should be using, while
> > spambots
> > will have no clue.
>
> Yes, it's possible, but it would be trivial to make the spambots
> notice and harvest the new address, so it may not be worth it.
So put a NOSPAM in the address, or space it with underscores or something.
Or don't worry; if most people don't do it, the spam bots wont worry about
it. It's not worth the effort to code up.
Actually, the path less travelled is littered with little benefits like
that.
Emlyn
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