Define "most" -- not "most" of the ones I use (ten or so). But yes, spammers 
might should know about it already.

Re Gmail: yes, their spam filtering is pretty good. Not sure how well it would 
hold up against global forwarding: I get mail to [email protected], 
[email protected], etc., etc.  Gmail's is surely content-based but still...

Cheers,

...phsiii

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Matthews [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 11:22 AM
To: Phil Smith III; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] My favorite email solution...

> Some ISPs also support an email name prefix or suffix, so if you're 
> [email protected], [email protected] will go to joe's inbox. This also lets you 
> use filters to manage those notes

My understanding is that the use of '+' should work with most mail 
servers -- that said, presumably obnoxious emailers also know about this use 
of '+' and may remove everything from the '+' to the '@' -- so it's not as 
bulletproof as separate mailbox names.


> Someone is about to reply saying, "But SPAM...!"

Per my suggestion, I use Google as the mail service -- and their spam filter 
is great -- very little spam get through, and there are very few false 
positive (though there are false positives, so I do check the spam filter 
every few days).

 

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