Swen.A

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Quoth the raven named Elizabeth:
Oh, I hope you're wrong!

I had heard that email addresses are harvested by a nonhuman so
would grab an email address with "deletethis" only to have it
bounce. No?
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As Ian demonstrated, it is trivial to program a search for common
words and remove them. It is also a good possibility that a human may
examine the list after the program is finished, and remove other less
trivial words. Swen won't do that, but spammers may.
 
Somebody told me that some bots simply pick names out of a dictionary add
the isp and send, no reject assumes a valid hit. Even a one percent success
rate would harvest quite a few names. It's too late for a couple of my
addresses, but it may be worthwhile to make the name part complex or
non-intuitive, like (e-mail address removed). I sometimes find I have to add
digits (birthday but not mine) to avoid a name conflict. Dave Cohen
 
Quoth the raven named Dave Cohen:
Somebody told me that some bots simply pick names out of a
dictionary add the isp and send, no reject assumes a valid hit.
Even a one percent success rate would harvest quite a few names.
It's too late for a couple of my addresses, but it may be
worthwhile to make the name part complex or non-intuitive, like
(e-mail address removed). I sometimes find I have to add digits
(birthday but not mine) to avoid a name conflict. Dave Cohen
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Digits will work against dictionary attacks; so will punctuation.
(e-mail address removed)

Just don't ever post it in Usenet. Here, you want to munge the whole
thing. If you use an invalid domain and TLD (such as my
example.invalid) no mail server will pass it.
 
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