From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 24 12:47:58 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 9324937B401 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:47:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from c3po.artlogix.com (s01.artlogix.com [216.231.46.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2339F43EC2 for ; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:47:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mcglk@artlogix.com) Received: from ralf.artlogix.com.artlogix.com (unknown [192.168.0.3]) by c3po.artlogix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29C511A9CC; Tue, 24 Dec 2002 12:44:23 -0800 (PST) To: "Jimi Thompson" Cc: Subject: Re: email addresses used for lists [was: L0phtcrack] References: From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 24 Dec 2002 12:49:43 -0800 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <86wulznnvc.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "Jimi Thompson" writes: | That way when I start getting Viagra or penis enlargment offers (and God | knows I need 'em ;)) addressed to bestbuy@mydomain.com, I can voice a loud | and provable complaint. Wellllll, unfortunately, you might be falsely accusing Best Buy, since it's likely to get hit on a Rumplestiltskin attack. Far better to include a random string in the address, such as bestbuy-r1cuisgafmjp@mydomain.com That's going to be a lot harder to find by randomly trying usernames, and is a lot more "provable," assuming that you've only given it out once. :) This only really helps if you have an explicit alias, rather than just having anything@mydomain.com being delivered to you. Yet another good reason to run your own mail server. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message