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On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Simon Williams wrote: >> Gordon Henderson wrote: >>> On a personal note, I more or less gave up caring if my email >>> address was published or not, and just developed the tools and >>> means to deal with it. I've had the same email address since 1995 >>> now ... I use the + system for tracking, but the down-side of that >>> is that 95% of all webshites have an email validation system >>> written by some dick-head of a spotty nerd who thought he/she knew >>> what email addresses look like and decided that plus signs were not >>> valid. > > "+ system for tracking"? What's this? Check my email address gordon+dcglug@ ... I can put +anything I like after gordon and before @drogon.net and my email system will accept it, so I can create a new email address on the fly - so when I started to get spam to gordon+aria, then I knew they'd either sold my email address or had a virus/trojan infect one of their PCs... I think some spammers are wise to it though. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html