Re: [cobalt-users] a question about pine

[Ryan Verner <xfesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 23:40:12 +0000 (GMT) "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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| Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT)
| From: A Trap <blacklist@xxxxxxxxx>
| To: blacklist@xxxxxxxxx
| Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature.
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| These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots.
| Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@xxxxxxxxx>, or you are likely to
| be blocked.

Just noticed this sig on your email - never thought of the concept of doing that before, and it certainly sounds like a good one.

There is one flaw that seems apparent to me though - what's stopping someone sending an email with a different from address (and as you're very certainly aware, is quite trivial to do)?  For example, if I sent an email to that address with my email address being cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, wouldn't that completely stop you from getting any more mail from this mailing list?

Maybe you've already devised a way around that - let me know :)

xf

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