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Re: [OT] Verification required?

On Dec 28, 2003, at 9:18 PM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote:

At 06:04p -0500 12/28/2003, Graff didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

I never read any of the stupid e-cards that friends and family send to me, those sometimes serve as e-mail address collectors and visiting the web address for the e-card verifies your e-mail address.

Which of those card services have "re-used" your email address?
Or are you only guessing?

I only have anecdotal evidence but I used to have an e-mail account which was getting no spam at all. Then one day someone sent me a e-card from one of the services, I forget which service but it wasn't a major one like Hallmark.com - it was a smaller outfit. I clicked on the link given in the e-mail to view the card and within a day or two I began to get dozens of spam e-mails a day in the account. I hadn't used the account for any new companies and that was pretty much the only action that I had taken concerning the e-mail account. I have heard similar accounts from other people so I figured better safe than sorry.

I would say that if you are getting more than a couple of dozen spam per day then cut your losses and get a new e-mail address.

Those of us with custom domain names cannot do that; there is no way to prevent spammers from making up addresses like sales@, info@, dev@, webmaster@, view@, and mangling addresses like webmaster@ into bmastgr@ or walter@ into er@, and random addresses like psufoiapsdy_czu@, etc.

Also, there is domain name spoofing such that spam appears to come from us, and bounces for those spams or viruses (due to made-up addresses) come back to us.

I have among the lowest volume of spam and I'm pretty sure its because I just don't take any risks with my e-mail addresses.

And because you don't have your own domain names.

Actually I do run two of my own domain names which I didn't include because they are work, not personal. They both get the kind of stuff that you are talking about but I send anything that isn't to a real address straight into the bit bucket. This includes stuff for sales, webmaster, etc. The domain names are not for a companies that need to take in that kind of feedback so I can get away with just dumping those e-mails. I can understand the need to filter e-mail coming in to those kind of addresses if you have a large enough company where you can't just throw away inquiries to sales, webmaster, etc. That kind of filtering is not for mere mortals, that's when you step up and pay for a major professional solution. You can get by with some of the less expensive/involved filters but at the cost of sweat on your brow, misfiltered e-mails, and lots of spam still leaking by.

- Ken
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References: 
 >[OT] Verification required? (From: Christian Jon Anderson <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [OT] Verification required? (From: Graff <email@hidden>)
 >Re: [OT] Verification required? (From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>)



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