[Mailman-Developers] Interesting study -- spam on
postedaddresses...
Barry A. Warsaw
barry@zope.com
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:36:55 -0500
>>>>> "JWB" == John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net> writes:
JWB> Once I had the domain, I started registering each product (or
JWB> company's products) with a unique local part @scandaroon.com.
JWB> Late last year, I had a sudden infusion of Spam addressed to
JWB> jwbpalm@scandaroon.com. [Company shall remain nameless ;-)]
JWB> Sending mail to that address now produces a 550 response
JWB> whose text is "sold down the river by Palm" (Which might be
JWB> wrong...they might have leaked it instead...which IMHO is
JWB> worse.) Palm is probably following the privacy policy as it
JWB> has evolved since I registered the (early production) Palm
JWB> IIIx.
Neat! I do the same thing with my wooz.org domain. I get no spam on
any of those product-derived addresses.
-Barry