Re: multiple addresses possible?

From: Mark Weinstock (woody@interactive.net)
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 14:44:32 -0500

In article <dAYtzwSAYewZ092yn@xs4all.nl.antispam>,
hneel@xs4all.nl.antispam (Hans Nelisse) said something like:
>Like many people, I recently changed my host address to 'xs4all.nl.antispam'
>in order to stay off spam-lists.
>However, I don't think this is useful when sending email messages instead
>of usenet. And it is also a small nuisance for the people that want to reply
>to my email messages. So, I would like to know if there is a way to use
>different host-adresses when posting email or usenet messages? I would
>like to use the 'antispam' address for usenet and the real address for email.
>

Just a general recommendation for everyone who's going this route to foil
spammers. For some it might be obviosu, for others it's obviously not. If
you're going to put extraneous words or characters in your email address to
stop email spammers from sending you mail, PLEASE put it to the right of
the @, and break up your ISP's name. Otherwise your ISP has to deal with
the mail. If the spammer can't find the domain, they are the only ones who
have to worry about it (other than the DNS servers). If it gets to your ISP,
then their system will still get hit.

So something like woody@interactive.nospam.net rather than
woody.nospam@interactive.net or woody@nospam.interactive.net

Just a my 2c. worth of recommendation...

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Mark                woody@interactive.net      mw4j@andrew.cmu.edu
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