Re^2: email address hiding

Run, don't walk, away from this ISP. Automatic verification messages are spam themselves and, similar to virus bounces, deserve nothing but derision. Adding to the spam problem by yourself spamming any poor slob who happens to have his email address placed into a spam-mail Reply-to header is not the way forward and will get you rightfully spat at by clueful postmasters.

All dogma is stupid.

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Re^3: email address hiding by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 06, 2006 at 17:46 UTC
To be honest I don't know what they are doing. They were using SpamAssasin until a few weeks ago, then they stopped. Now they are using something called X-DefendMail. In their CPanel setup, they don't have any settings, but the whitelist, blacklist and keywords for their confirmation system. I was getting 100 spams per day, but now none, and their CPanel logs only shows about 5 confirmation emails sent over a week's time. So.....I guess X-DefendMail must only send confirmation emails in a small number of "indeterminant cases". To be honest I have no idea what they are doing, but my original point still stands, that obfuscating your email address will only have minimal impact on the amount of spam your get, for various reasons. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]

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Re^3: email address hiding
by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 06, 2006 at 17:46 UTC

In their CPanel setup, they don't have any settings, but the whitelist, blacklist and keywords for their confirmation system.

I was getting 100 spams per day, but now none, and their CPanel logs only shows about 5 confirmation emails sent over a week's time. So.....I guess X-DefendMail must only send confirmation emails in a small number of "indeterminant cases".

To be honest I have no idea what they are doing, but my original point still stands, that obfuscating your email address will only have minimal impact on the amount of spam your get, for various reasons.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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