Fake email addresses (was Re: Why do people keep stealing my work)

[Vassilis PREVELAKIS]

> I like to do a similar thing with online forms that require your name and
> email.  I create a throwaway email address and then make up a name and
> address.  I'm still getting spam offering really great mortgage rates to
> someone called David Marquez in Juneau.  But I never did get anything for
> Consuelo O'Brien of Barrow.

You can do even better than that, by creating rules to automatically handle
incoming email according to the destination address.

See "Fighting Spam by Encapsulating Policy in Email Addresses", by
John Ioannidis 
	www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/03/proceedings/papers/1.pdf

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