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Re: [cobalt-users] E-mail Catch All



On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, wcstaff wrote:

> I completely did away with mine as it causes an enormous amount of junk
> mail. Anyone can send to anything at the domain and it will get through. Our
> customers were getting 100+ junk mails a day. We eliminated the catch all
> and the spam went down to an average of 3 or 4.
> Just a thought...

I should probably do this as well. For now, it's just pure laziness.

;)

I use custom addresses when entering an email address in certain sites or
on usenet. A catchall just makes it easy to receive that mail - but it
also makes it easy for spammers, as well...

-jf.