RE: [Asrg] Random thought

["Damien Morton" <dm-temp-310102@nyc.rr.com>]

> Behalf Of Kee Hinckley
> 
> 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.


Yeah - fundamentally, any spam solution has to be able to pass this
test:

Can I publish my email address anywhere and not expect to inundated with
spam.

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