From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 24 12:39:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5285137B401 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:39:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FEAC43E4A for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:39:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kkb@breathhost.net) Received: from [192.168.1.63] (12-240-247-89.client.attbi.com[12.240.247.89]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <20021224203939002000g00ke>; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 20:39:39 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.3 Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:39:39 -0800 Subject: Re: email addresses used for lists [was: L0phtcrack] From: Kurt Bigler To: Andrew Brampton , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <006601c2ab87$4e1e79f0$0100a8c0@andrew> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG on 12/24/02 3:53 AM, Rob O'Donnell wrote: >>> 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..) on 12/24/02 11:07 AM, Kurt Bigler wrote: >> Well that's an interesting idea. Throw-away subdomains (excuse my >> terminology >> - maybe I'm supposed to call them host names?) imply a whole "host" of email >> addresses without wasting a domain name. >> >> I have never implemented email at a subdomain. Can most virtual domain mail >> servers handle addr@foo.domain.com just as easily as addr@domain.com? on 12/24/02 12:01 PM, Andrew Brampton wrote: > I think the orginal poster didn't mean to say set up a different subdomain > for each account just a different address, for example > > freebsd@bramp.freeserve.co.uk > php@bramp.freeserve.co.uk > someSiteISignedUpAt.com@bramp.freeserve.co.uk > > I have a catch all email address so anything@bramp.freeserve.co.uk goes to > me without having to set it up in advance, all goes to one mail box. The original poster was pointing out that there are ISPs that offer free _entire_domains_ of email, and my point is they can afford to do this because they are using subdomains under their domain for this purpose. The point of having an entire [sub]domain available is that you can freely allocate user names @ that domain, and one possible application of this is to have a large space of names available to help track spam sources. The point I was latching onto was that subdomains are cheap, but offer just as large a space for email names as a domain would offer. I am not suggesting creating a subdomain for each account, but rather creating subdomains as needed to create unique namespaces for email accounts. As a provider, I might consider each subdomain an "account", but the end user needs such an account in order to have an entire namespace available. Personally I have had enough problems with other email hosts that I just want to use my own server now. So I would rather create subdomains for this purpose (for myself) rather than use another provider for this. Besides, then I can provide the same service to others. Kurt Bigler To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message