On Oct 23, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> I do magnificently well with [email protected] …  I never give  
> out the same email address twice.  (Note,[email protected], and 
> [email protected] 
> , etc) and when I start receiving spam on some address … I know who  
> let my address “leak” to spammers, and I simply throw away that  
> address (or filter it).
>
> Yes, I recognize, if something like the above were popular, then  
> spammers would send mail to [email protected], but I think  
> the next step would be really obvious … Whenever I send mail to some

Trust me, they already do.  Try watching spam bots deliver mail to  
domains.

And every time I find someone with a significant spam problem, I solve  
it for them by disabling the catch-all on their domain.

Yeah, it's convenient for you.  Convenient for spammers too.   It's  
much easier to solve spam from a known sender to your known address,  
then to solve for all random attacks against anything in your domain.

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness


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