Quoting David Grimberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I was just thinking about the number of times that I've been out around > town > lately and had need of giving someone my private email address, > specifically > potential personal business partner.
I have a slightly different solution to this problem. By default, email to any address on my domain gets routed through TMDA. I own the entire domain - everything gets dumped into a single mailbox. Luckily, dictionary attack spams have been rare. I have a certain format of email address that will always go straight to my mailbox and bypass TMDA's challenge. The incoming filter says: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] accept That way, whenever I want to give out a non-challenged email, I just make up a new address with the given prefix. Each person/entity gets a different address, so I can always turn off an address by explicitly matching that to address and setting drop/bounce/confirm. If you don't own the entire domain, you could always use addresses something like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] where [EMAIL PROTECTED] is your normal address. Choose "prefix" not to clash with TMDA's keyword/confirm/... "-" is your usual delimiter. Basically, this is the same as TMDA keyword addresses, without the HMAC verification - I figure no spammer is going to bother working this scheme out and generating a bunch of different addresses to spam. If any individual works it out and abuses it, I can just revoke the address as I mentioned above. -- Stephen Warren, Software Engineer, Parama Networks, San Jose, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wwwdotorg.org/ _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
