by Steve Gray
steve@4penny.net
VP Software Development
4Penny.net
This isn't my idea - I stole it from someone else - but I think it is excellent, I use it myself, and I am very happy to recommend it to all who will listen: Steve's 100%-guaranteed-no-spam- solution.
OK, it's not 100%, but it really works well. Whenever I go to a web site and sign up for something (and I end up doing this a lot) I don't give them my normal email address (steve@4penny.net). If I am shopping on my favorite website (http://www.tigerdirect.com/) I use tigerdirect@4penny.net. If I go to JC Penny and buy something, I use jcpenny@4penny.net.
Since I own the 4penny.net domain, all the mail for that domain comes to me. All of it. If you send mail to 'junk@4penny.net', I get it. That's the key. Since I get all the mail to 4penny.net, I get the mail to tigerdirect@4penny.net, and all the others too.
"They sold my name to spammers for profit"
Last year I signed up (because my wife told me to) to http://www.classmates.com/. You know, that site that helps you get in touch with your old high school classmates? When I signed up I used classmates@4penny.net. Last month I started getting spam sent to that email address. Grrrrr. They had sold my name to spammers for profit. Obvoiusly, I knew where the spammers had gotten the email address... So, nice as you please, I went to the server and blocked all email to that address.
I still get my email to steve@4penny.net, and none of the spam.
Just a thought.
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