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[SpamCop-List] Re: I have question>

Bert Byfield BertByfield at nospam.not
Fri Feb 20 15:58:03 EST 2004


>> My first Question are these companys '.COM's' selling my email
>> addresses to these people?

> By using a unique address every time you fill out a form, you can
> easily track who sold your address should you start receiving spam
> to any of them.

I have used "bitbucket" as a name suffix and sure enough spam showed up 
addressed to "bitbucket" (an old programmers' term for write-only memory 
(the trash). It is easy to filter on such suffixes. Some form of throw-away 
temporary email name system is really a requirement for everyone, to fight 
spam.






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