Re: NEW Email address

I thought that non-deliverable mail would either get sent to postmaster
(whoever that was defined to) or would be bounced back with the SMTP
spam management?

Steve

Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
In article <12jv2pkg73ggbee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Island Computers, D B
Turner" <dbturner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Well, now I am getting over 2000 spam messages a day ( I am truly sick of
it), I am getting rid of

dbturner@xxxxxxxxxxxx and going to change to just dturner

My experience is: this won't help. Gone are the days when an address
was vulnerable to spam only if it could be publicly harvested, usually
from a newsgroup or web page. Now, much (most?) spam comes from two
sources: viruses which infect PCs, read the address books or whatever
and spam from there (to avoid this, you would have to get people on
vulnerable (i.e. Windows) computers to avoid storing your address
electronically) and dictionary attacks (also often from virus-infected
PCs: just go through all combinations of letters and eventually you'll
get a valid username). What might help here is a LONGER username, such
as theoneandonlygreatvmsfriendlycomputerdealermrdbturnerhimselfindeed.

On the subject of long usernames: has HP TCPIP been upgraded yet to be
able to reject mail to non-valid usernames even if they are longer than
12 characters?

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