Re: NNTP servers - munged addresses

* Monique Y. Mudama <[email protected]> [2005-12-22 00:11]:
> On 2005-12-20, Patrick Shanahan penned:
> >> On 2005-12-20, Hans-Christoph Wirth penned:
> >> > It's not 100% safe for the reader how to reconstruct the
> >> > "correct" address, or whether it should be corrected at all
> >
> > perhaps a better(?) solution is to periodically
> > change the email account that you utilize for news.
>
> But as email addresses live forever in spammers' lists,
> you're just creating more server traffic this way.
> And how periodically?  You can get inundated
> by spam from just a single poorly timed post.

you could use an address for every
single day, eg yyyymmdd-user@domain.
then simply invalidate all addresses
which are older than N days. simple?

then again, for every addresses you use a
spammer might you another copy of his spam.

but if you are the maintainer of your
own mail server then you might as well
use those addresses for teergrubing,
ie whenever an invalid addresses is
being used for sending you can hold
the connection to the spammer site
indefinitely. "please hold the line"..

or use killfiles that *really* kill.  ;-)
"have you killed a spammer today?"  hehehe

Sven

-- 
ANTISPAM From:     FirstName LastName <address.invalid>
ANTISPAM Reply-To: FirstName LastName <address.valid>
see also: RFC 2606 "Reserved Top Level DNS Names"
http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml


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