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On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:22:21AM +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote: > That's only a temporary measure - they'll get you in the end, and > it's a real PITA. E.g. the first time you send an email out with the > new email address, then if someone has a compromised PC, it's as > good as broadcast to the spammers.. > FWIW something that Gordon mentioned to me was use the "+" symbol to differentiate emails So if you sign up to First Great Western then your email address is neil+fgw@... If you then massive emails turning up addressed to neil+fgw@.. then you know you have a spammer and delete all the emails. Some websites don't allow the "+" attribute but otherwise it is a simple control process -- Henry Communication not signed with an original manual signature or an appropriately verified digital signature is not binding. Digital Key Signature: GPG RSA 0xFB447AA1 or 0x3184D537 Smime Fingerprint 98:24:AE:F7:D1:D6:E5:A0:F0:55:2F:40:42:5F:46:24:F9:52:f4:30 Wed Feb 6 12:32:30 GMT 2013 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq