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Re: [LUG] email

 

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Martijn Grooten wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Gordon Henderson wrote:
>> I can put +anything I like after gordon and before @drogon.net and my
>> email system will accept it, so I can create a new email address on the
>> fly - so when I started to get spam to gordon+aria, then I knew they'd
>> either sold my email address or had a virus/trojan infect one of their
>> PCs...
>>
>> I think some spammers are wise to it though.
>
> I would expect them to be: if I were to write a bot that scraped email
> addresses I would make sure that, if it would come across
> foo+bar@xxxxxxxxxxx, also foo@xxxxxxxxxxx would be added to the
> database as well. (But then, these bots are, generally, pretty daft
> and they're more likely to only add bar@xxxxxxxxxxx in this case.)
>
> Some MTAs use hypens instead of plus signs:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Sub-addressing
>
> And of course, if you have written your own MTA, you can make it
> accept all addresses where the local part started with gordon. But I
> doubt that would be worth the trouble.

Nah, I wouldn't write my own MTA. I have sendmail and a first edition copy 
of the bat book...

Gordon

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