At 8:50 AM -0500 11/22/04, Bill Cole issued a series of ones and zeros which decoded as: > >One of the best tools I have for making sure that legitimate mail gets in >while keeping out the flood of garbage is tagged addresses. SIMS does not have >automatic support for tagging, but it is easy to set up in the router, like >this: > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = realaddress-* ><realaddress-badtag1> = spamtrap ><realaddress-badtag2> = spamtrap ><realaddress-*> = realaddress
Please, can you explain 'tagging' with an example? > >If you give out addresses with tags, mail to them gets past blacklisting, but >if specific tags get compromised you can turn them into spamtraps. I've used >the same 2 base addresses for a decade on publicly posted stuff, but for the >past few years I've been only giving out tagged addresses to specific business >and personal contacts. This way, I can be sure that their mail evades the >blacklists I use AND if those specific tagged addresses get spread to >spammers, I can know where it came from and cease dealing with whoever is >handing my address out. So I'd use, for example, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" for corresponding with a particular client or entity? ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
