David E. Ross wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> John wrote: >>> Q: What's the quickest way to get a mailbox full of spam? >>> A: Post a message in any newsgroup using a real email address. >> >> Just a point relating to your signature... the domain name nospam.org >> is an active domain. By using it, you are offering it to the >> spambots, so it is likely that they are sending spam to someone >> else's email. Never use anything that can be a real domain, even if >> not registered. >> >> I'd suggest you use: no...@example.invalid >> which will prevent such harvesting of real domains. > > Also, munging an E-mail address in a newsgroup message might be okay;
Yes. In this case, the mail server hosting nospam.org would not have to deal with spam. > but don't do it in an E-mail message. Goes without saying. How would you get a reply? ;-) > My ISP automatically checks all E-mail coming into its mail server. > Any E-mail message from an unregistered domain or an unassigned IP > address is trashed without even reaching the server's spam bucket. ..unless it is from "no...@nospam.org" ... -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
