Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:53:30 +0000 From: Rob O'Donnell <robert@aphnet.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: email addresses used for lists [was: L0phtcrack] Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20021224114927.019b1d98@aph2k> In-Reply-To: <BA2CE055.58C9%kkb@breathhost.net> References: <DAV21aXhFTiSbwQFs8p0000b84f@hotmail.com>
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At 15:46 23/12/2002 -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: >on 12/23/02 3:34 PM, Kenzo <kenzo_chin@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > And for using hotmail account....Computer 101, never > > use your real or company e-mail address to post on forums, just attracks > > crackers. > >I currently create a new email address for every category of mailing list >that I join. For web use, I use a throw-away free-ISP account (which lets me pop mail from anywhere!) which hands out email addresses in the form anything@account.isp.co.uk - whenever a web sites asks me for an email address, I use their domain name in front of the @ - nothing to set up my end, and I know immediately whenever I get spam through that isp which web site gave it out. (Thank you, Paltalk..) I sort of forgot for this mailing list.... Rob >I know others use special accounts for mailing lists which refuse to receive >any mail that doesn't come from one of the lists that they associate with >the account (or else they accomplish the filtering in their email client). > >A word of warning: When I first joined freebsd-questions, I joined with my >"main" preferred only-for-friends spam-safe email address by mistake. Being >lazy, I waited a few hours to correct that, unjoining, and rejoining with >the desired address. But ever since then I get matching paired spams on the >two addresses: the one I used by mistake for a few hours, and the one that >I use at the moment ONLY for freebsd-questions. > >Fortunately I get only 1 or 2 spams a day like this, but I'm afraid it will >grow and I will have to give up my main email address, or get deeply into >spam filtering, which so far I have avoided. > >Regards, >Kurt Bigler > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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