Re: [Asrg] Random thought

[Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com>]

At 11:41 AM -0500 3/12/03, Jason Hihn wrote:
> What if we assigned a bucket in the email address?
>
> joe[spam]@paytimepayroll.com
I've been doing this for about a year.  (Using 
myaddr+domain@example.com, which is supported by many MTAs).  It 
turns out that it starts to be a pain to manage.  Companies change 
names, domains change.  You start to have addresses registered at 
sites where you aren't sure which token you used.  Never mind that 
you get the sites that don't let you type in a + in the address (or 
like drugstore.com, which just made it impossible for me to access my 
email account because they added that restriction *after* I had 
registered--not to worry they said, they'll fix it in 3-5 weeks.).

But it hasn't had any impact on my spam.  Why?  Because legitimate 
sites don't sell your email address.  And I don't give my address to 
non-legit sites.  Most of my spam comes from postings to mailing 
lists and other things that put my address on the web.  Giving each 
of those a different address would a) result in a lot of spam, b) 
make it hard to send mail to a mailing list and c) would (if I 
blocked them once I started getting spam) make it difficult for legit 
folks to get in touch with me.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/        Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/   Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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