[dmd-beta] Fw: lucky winner

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:23:36 +0200
Leandro Lucarella <luca at llucax.com.ar> wrote:
> Well, we have different concepts of what "difficult" is. For me that's
> much more difficult than training my bogofilter for a couple of days
> and rest in peace leaving my real address *anywhere* without even
> bothering to obfuscate it in any way.

I have a very, very, VERY strong hatred for even ONE false positive
*or* negative. So I find this well worth it, and vastly easier
than the impossible task of finding or developing a perfect filter.

And the thing is, too, for all the enormous amount of effort that's
gone into developing inevitably error-prone filters, if even a fraction
of that effort had instead gone into improving usability and widespread
feasibility of the "multiple disposable addresses" approach, than this
approach would be *far* easier than it currently is and would be
perfectly feasible even for ordinary "free webmail" users. It's just
a dead-end approach vs an approach with real potential.

> 
> If someone ever publishes your e-mail address in a website all your
> life's hard work of keeping your real address clean goes to the trash
> in a blink, and you can't just throw it away.
> 

It happened once before, many years ago. All I do make a new one and
inform everyone about it. Not a big deal. Even without my
anti-spam tactic, people's emails do tend to change periodically anyway.
And people don't seem to go posting each other's addresses much,
although admittedly that may depend on the people you're around.

> 
> That was not my experience, I even got spam in addresses I never give
> to ANYONE, not a single human being, and no machine. There are bots
> that are really trying popular usernames in domains they know they
> have a lot of users.
> 

Yea, I suspected that at one point and made a trivial-to-guess
username to test it, and was surprised I never got anything on it. But I
guess maybe they *only* guess usernames for major email domains (my
domain's anything but major).