[thelist] Re: thelist Digest, Vol 14, Issue 36
Diane Soini
dianesoini at earthlink.net
Sun Apr 18 17:31:19 CDT 2004
Sounds tiring for the scant quantity of legit email I get. And what
about my poor mother? I have found the subject line route to work
pretty well, and it didn't have to be that complex.
It's gotta be costing businesses and taxpayers a fortune.
On Saturday, April 17, 2004, at 04:08 AM,
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:
>
>>> if you must give your address to Microsoft, give
>>> 'microsoft at yourdomain.com'
>>> if you post to mailing list called 'foo', do it with address
>>> 'foo at yourdomain.com'
>>> ...etc...
>
>> Only problem with theses sorts of things is if someone has put your
>> good email in their address book, your email is pretty much up for
>> grabs. All it takes is a virus. Or even less. I get the most spam
>> from an email address I have never exposed and that is only a few
>> months old. Putting it in the From field was enough.
>
> Damn, you're right...
>
> Well, if the problem gets this serious, then there is a need for
> serious measures. You could always quit using email altogether, but I
> don't find this as a solution, but resignment.
>
> A solution (albeit laborous one) would be to every day accept only
> mails adressed to:
> yyyymmdd at yourdomain.com, where yyyymmdd is the current date (and maybe
> accept also the previous and next dates too, because of time zone
> differences).
>
> If you still get spam, the you can require the date to be followed by
> accepted name: you have a friend called John, and today he must use
> address 20040417john at yourdomain.com.
>
> Easier solution would be to require something in the subject or body
> of the email - senders email address would be good: john at hisdomain.com
> must include 'john at hisdomain.com' in the subject line. Or give your
> friends each a password that they must have in the first line of the
> message body. This is actually very good option, as it can be used
> even without your own domain name.
>
> How do these sound to you?
>
> .kasimir
>
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