[rescue] Spam (was: Perverse Question)

[Dave McGuire]

On Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 11:55 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> I like creating scads of dash addresses (like this one) and a few
>> "real" ones through forwarders (I use pobox.com) to separate my email
>
> That's probably OK if you only have a few stable mailing lists you 
> read.
>
> Isn't there a way tag your email address so that it still routes but 
> has
> a tag you can use to where spam comes from?

   That's CMU's "user+detail" format, pioneered (I believe) by the 
Andrew project.  It was designed for exactly this application.  I 
believe plain sendmail deals with it just fine.

          -Dave

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