Re: people are definately starting to harvest emailadresses on this list...

[markd]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 04:55:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> markd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Indeed this is an excellent strategy - if done properly. The problem is,
> > a lot of people don't have the ability to capture all addresses in a
> > domain - and of course user-random@domain is trivially defeated by a
> > competent slicer and dicer if user@domain is valid.
> 
> There's a simple solution to that.  Use user@domain as another spam trap
> and have your *real* address that you give out to people who you want to
> have a stable address be user-<something>@domain and be careful about
> revealing that <something>.  :)

That's a good idea Russ.


Regards.