Re: responses from vendors

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Darryl Caldwell wrote:

> I am curious what users of ASK do to handle automatic responses from
> vendors (receipts, password reminders, etc) where do you don't know
> the vendors address beforehand.
>
> Say I want to rent a car on line and the vendor sends me a
> confirmation email that is automatically generated....
>

I give to such bussinesses a temporary address, forwarded to my main,
secret address mailbox. Both are completely ASK-free. If not published
(elsewhere than to the car renter(s)), this temporary address can last
a couple of years before being noticed by spammers. After that, I
change it. At that time, the car renter is either forgotten since
long, or all its addresses are in my whitelist and I make it switch to
my ASK-filtered address.

The advantage of this method is that it does not need any new software
of configuration at all. Just one new, temporary and forwarded address
from time to time.

Cheers,

Marc.

-- 
So einfach wie möglich. Aber nicht einfacher -- Albert Einstein



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