Thursday, February 23rd, 2006, 5:44 am
Hiding Your E-mail Address
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Separating ham and spam
NE powerful technique to avoiding spam are E-mail addresses (accounts) which are not public. They can reside rather happily alongside more public address(es), but the level of ‘noise’ in each then varies. Reading habits benefit from the separation.
An odd suspicion should rise when a private (undisclosed) mail account is beginning to receive spam. Then, one can only spect that EITHER:
- A trusted person gave the E-mail address to a spammer or posted it publicly for ratbots to harvest
OR
- Somebody’s computer has been hijacked and address book data pulled from it, leading to misuse
This unfortunate scenario has recently hit me. At the end, it turned out that SpamAssassin was disabled, so I reported the fault to my host. My private account remains clean and has been clean for over a year. I warmheartedly recommend this tactic, which will be explained at greater depth if you follow the link above.
