What about automatic email from vendors?

How does ASK handle mail that is autogenerated from vendors. The
creator of BLOWBACK handles it thusly:

"Sometimes it IS useful to be able to get an email from an automatic
process. For example, suppose I buy something from www.acme.com. I'd
like to be able to receive an automatic sale confirmation from Acme.
One way to do this is to add *acme.com to the trusted pattern file.
This is what I usually do. But it's not ideal, because Acme may start
to spam me later. And I don't want to have the burden of editing the
pattern list very often.

So to handle this, BLOWBACK lets me create addresses that can be used
a bounded number of times. When I register on Acme'ss web site, I'll
use the address "[email protected]". The first 3 times this
address is used, the mail gets through unimpeded. After that, email to
that address is treated just like any other email.

If enough people start to use the BLOWBACK concept, spammers might
build bots that can automatically release the email. If this happens,
I can make the task harder. I can can make it so that you have to
successfully pass a CAPTCHA in order to have your email released to
me."


http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/blowback/

Is there something in the works like this for ASK?

-D





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