Re: Spam-trapping (was Re: Suitable insect repellant to keep the infamous scottish midges at bay)

Simon Brooke <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:2hcpr2-o45.ln1
@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk:

> OK, why is this a problem? Yes, the above really is my real email
> address. Yes, I have used my real email address on all my (many) Usenet
> posts for the past twenty years (OK, the address has changed four times
> over that period). No, I don't have an excessive SPAM problem; or
> rather, spamassassin copes perfectly well with the spam I do get.
> So-called 'spam-trap' email addresses are more nuisance than they're
> worth, in my opinion.

Not really a problem unless, like me, you access your email from multiple
places and multiple devices from around the world and don't have the
infrstructure in place to run your own anti-spam software of whatever
capability. I did use a "proper" junk address that would receive mail for
a while in usenet posts (dodsgr@xxxxxxxxxxx) but that got totally swamped
with crap within a month or two of the address being used.

My hosting provider does provide some basic spam filtering (although
I've chosen just to have it tagged rather than filtered). The only stuff
that gets through now is non-valid addresses delivered to my domain, so
my spam-trap address does seem to work.

As for spam trap addresses being more trouble than they're worth, I
agree, some of them are rather obscure and a bit of a pain, e.g. the ones
that involve instructions in the sig to make it valid, or worse, require
instructions but don't give them. However there are some that are so
bloody obvious that if they can't be worked out then it acts as a nice
numpty filter for your email :) I think I've only emailed two or three
people from their addresses on usenet although I've been using it for
about 15 years, so I don't see it as a big problem anyway.

Graeme
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