Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:07:53 -0800 From: Kurt Bigler <kkb@breathhost.net> To: Rob O'Donnell <robert@aphnet.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: email addresses used for lists [was: L0phtcrack] Message-ID: <BA2DF089.5927%kkb@breathhost.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20021224114927.019b1d98@aph2k>
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on 12/24/02 3:53 AM, Rob O'Donnell <robert@aphnet.co.uk> wrote: > 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..) 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? If so, I might start "providing" myself (and others too) such options. Will qmail+vpopmail do this transparently? Is it just a matter of the domain name containing another "." as far as qmail+vpopmail is concerned? Or should I avoid giving further exposure to the domain name by creating subdomains under it? In that case I can register one more domain name just for this purpose. Presumably it is not a problem that it is hosted on the same server.? Only problem I see is I use webmail.domain.com for webmail access at domain. I guess I will have to find out whether zoneedit.com will let me set up DNS such that webmail.foo.domain.com can work. (Getting really OT now - I'll ask zoneedit about this.) Thanks, Kurt Bigler > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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