On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, John Andersen wrote:
> On Thursday 19 October 2006 04:02, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote:
> > > In short: just use it. :-}
> >
> > Right. :)
>
> No, that's actually wrong. You never want to use it to send
> or receive mail. You want it to be hit totally uninvited, not by accident.
>
> E.g. not not by some innocent but clueless doofus who thought it was your
> real email address, responds to it and, as a reward, gets his entire ISP in
> some blacklist somewhere.
Total agreement. That's why the "unsubscribe" idea is best, works fast
(my best time was 20 minutes from 'unsubscribe' click to fresh spam) and
nobody can claim an innocent mistake.
If you manage a mail server (or are friends with a mail-admin) watch the
invalid-user reject logs. Sometimes you'll see repeated patterns that
can be routed via aliases to spam-traps. One of my favorites is the
address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Not even close to a valid address
at our site but has been receiving spam for more than 10 years now. ;)
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