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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Gordon Henderson wrote: > 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. I would expect them to be: if I were to write a bot that scraped email addresses I would make sure that, if it would come across foo+bar@xxxxxxxxxxx, also foo@xxxxxxxxxxx would be added to the database as well. (But then, these bots are, generally, pretty daft and they're more likely to only add bar@xxxxxxxxxxx in this case.) Some MTAs use hypens instead of plus signs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Sub-addressing And of course, if you have written your own MTA, you can make it accept all addresses where the local part started with gordon. But I doubt that would be worth the trouble. Martijn. -- 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