--- F R E N D Z of martian --- Spam and how to not like it. I use the following spam-source detection technique: get an account at cjb.net (I am marsbard.cjb.net) and use the facility of forwarding any email @youraccount.cjb.net to your main email account. When you visit a site requiring email registration (for this example, spambunny.net), use the email address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Now when you get spam, check the To: line... if the To: line says something else, you were on a Bcc (blind carbon copy) so you have to check the headers to see what address it was delivered to. If your mail was delivered to [EMAIL PROTECTED] then you know *for sure* that the spambunny site either spammed you or sold your address to spammers. Not much but at least you know... and you can maybe filter out mails delivered to that address My next idea... just a germ of an idea at the mo - when you get spam, forward it to a particular address [ooh, [EMAIL PROTECTED], or summat] - the address will run a prog that sends a fake bounce msg 'sorry your email could not be delivered' back to the originator. This may encourage the spammer to actually remove your email from their list. Or are the spammers even going to bother dropping dead addys? I dunno. Is this worth the effort? Your ideas, issues and reactions please. luvonya martian PS - check http://marsbard.com/ - if there are any cool links that you *haven't* seen in email, _PLEASE_ let me know... several peeps have told me that they are missing emails and if so I have to move the list soon. --- Random fortune cookie I just got when I logged in: Even if you do learn correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Martin Cosgrave, Chief Technical Officer, AppDev Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://appdev.co.uk 0117 902 3143 07971 987 428 -- Sent to you via the frendz list at marsbard.com The archive is at http://www.mail-archive.com/frendz@marsbard.com/
