[oclug] How to catch privacy liars with Qmail

[Michael P. Soulier]

    All I can say is... kewl. :)

    Mike

On 05/03/02 Dan Cardamore did speaketh:

> Hey all,
> 
> I've switched to qmail several months ago and started using a very
> interesting anti-spam, anti-anti-privacy-policy feature.  Qmail allows
> you to receive any mail destined for $userid@$domain, it also lets you
> recieve any email destined for $userid-$something@$domain.  So what I've
> been doing is when I sign up for something on the net and they ask for
> my email address I give them my address as
> $userid-$theircompanyname@$domain.  This way when I eventually recieve
> a spam, I can track down who sold the address to the spammer.  I caught
> my first one yesterday.
> 
> I signed up for a boxfrog.com email account because it claims "anonymity
> and privacy".  If you read their privacy policy you'll see that they
> should never disclose email addresses to spammer.  yesterday I got an
> email to my -boxfrog email saying that my cousins friend just turned 18
> and that I should go to her website... yadi yada...
> 
> What makes qmail so great is that you can give any company your email
> address, and if you ever do get spam on that address, you can /dev/null
> it, or report them for violation of their privacy policy.
> 
> Dan
> 
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