I'm thinking more and more about treating email the same way I treat BGP peering sessions. That being that you would be a moron to now have strict filters. I'm thinking of moving away from having an email ADDRESS that I care about, to making the domain the primary focus. So rather than having dean(a)flatnet.gen.nz post to mailing lists, I'd have nznog(a)deanpemberton.com post to the nznog mailing list. Then filter incoming mail to that address, so that if it was not a post to the nznog list it gets dumped. I already do this for things that need me to sign up with an email address. If I'm signing up to wibble then the email address they get is wibble(a)deanpemberton.com, and if I start getting spam on it then I can /dev/null it with no big hassle. Have to do a bit more thinking on the whole subject though - there are some areas that need to be ironed out. Dean On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 12:53, Dylan Reeve wrote:
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Juha Saarinen wrote:
That is the most irritating thing - if I don't respond, am I consenting? if I do will they honour it, or rate my email address higher?
No, and yes. Your address will be confirmed, and can be sold many times over. You will contribute to the Spameconomy and it will be all your fault. As usual. ;-)
I am not have been clear, my question was rhetorical. I know what happens it I reply to spam (or preview it in an HTML capable email client in many cases).
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation placed firmly between a rock and a hard-place.
-- Dylan Reeve - dylan(a)wibble.net It's just not cricket.
- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog