Toni Uusitalo said:
Yes! I'm aware of that! You should make some funny typos for your address
too,
haven't you heard a story about horrible spammers that drink your blood and
fill
your mailbox with evil filth in return ;-)
For sure, yes, but I believe there are better ways to achieve the goal:
Note that practically *all* address harvesters access only the From:
address of the messages, so one possibility is to use a From: address
which is invalid in an obvious way, and put your true return address
in a Reply-To: header. When posting using a Newsreader, I use this approach.
It is important that you write the invalid From: address in a way that
it does not increase the load on the Net, if spammers try to send spam
to this address. You typically do this by using an invalid TLD. In your
case, you could use (e-mail address removed)
When I have, for whatever reason, to use Google (or a similar service, which
does not allow me to use an invalid From: address), I use a free mail
account created just for that purpose. In my case, I use an account at
http://fastmail.fm/ , because this Web based mail reader is fast and
allows me to quickly erase all the spam. Note that I don't expect people
to answer by email anyway, so it does not harm that I clean up my fastmail
account only once a month or so.
If OTOH I would expect to get responses by email, I would say so in my
signature line. So far, I have never detected a case where I received spam
from posting my real address in a signature (or in the Reply-To: header),
but if you are really paranoid about this, you could post the address of
a mail forwarding service, which simply forwards to your real account, and
if you really start receiving spam, it is easy to use a new forwarder and
set up a suitable autoresponder on the old one.
Ronald
