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Re: Security needs to be tighter in the classifieds section

Author: EEBaum
Date: 2006-08-08 00:59

While an email obfuscation or forwarding system is nice, I personally have found it quite beneficial to have a set of temporary email addresses. I'll assign one to anything very public and email-harvestable, and if it gets picked up by spammers, I ditch the email address.

Of course, I do it the easy way... with my own domain, I create a new email forwarder for literally every service I sign up for. It all ends up in my inbox, but nobody sees my master email address. This reduces the collateral damage of me ditching an address to effectively nil, and has the added bonus of letting me know exactly where the address was picked up by the spammers. Once I know it's someone I actually want to do business with, I reply with the address I actually use.

While a layer of privacy provided by the service is nice, the system I have set up gives me total control of the privacy mechanisms. I find the hosting/registration fees (which I pay anyways for my site) and the extra few seconds for each new forwarder well worth it as a way to almost totally eliminate spam from my inbox.

-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com

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