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From: Henning on 30 May 2010 18:46

"David Kaye" <sfdavidkaye2(a)yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:htunnf$12c$10(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> "Mayayana" <mayayana(a)invalid.nospam> wrote:
>
>>I'm concerned about getting a lot of spam if
>>I use the actual domain name.
>
> Why not just use a free email account at Yahoo, Inbox.com, Gmail, Hotmail,
> etc and put that on your return address? That's what I do. My address
> here
> is one of those accounts. I do look at it from time to time in case I
> miss
> anything, but generally there's not much spam there, and even if there is,
> it's all in one spot.
>

Set the mailaddress as ie @coldmail.com, those who likes to mail you will
know the real servername. ;)
Mailaddress sniffers will most likely not, and as said they all end-up in
one unimportant place.

/Henning


From: David Kerber on 2 Jun 2010 18:43
In article <umUb7nEALHA.1448(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>,
computer_hero(a)coldmail.com says...
>
> "David Kaye" <sfdavidkaye2(a)yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:htunnf$12c$10(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> > "Mayayana" <mayayana(a)invalid.nospam> wrote:
> >
> >>I'm concerned about getting a lot of spam if
> >>I use the actual domain name.
> >
> > Why not just use a free email account at Yahoo, Inbox.com, Gmail, Hotmail,
> > etc and put that on your return address? That's what I do. My address
> > here
> > is one of those accounts. I do look at it from time to time in case I
> > miss
> > anything, but generally there's not much spam there, and even if there is,
> > it's all in one spot.
> >
>
> Set the mailaddress as ie @coldmail.com, those who likes to mail you will
> know the real servername. ;)
> Mailaddress sniffers will most likely not, and as said they all end-up in
> one unimportant place.
>
> /Henning

The people who own the real "coldmail.com" domain may not be too happy,
though...

D

From: Henning on 2 Jun 2010 19:14

"David Kerber" <dkerber(a)WarrenRogersAssociates.invalid> skrev i meddelandet
news:MPG.2670a888c786f719989684(a)news.eternal-september.org...
> In article <umUb7nEALHA.1448(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>,
> computer_hero(a)coldmail.com says...
>>
>> "David Kaye" <sfdavidkaye2(a)yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet
>> news:htunnf$12c$10(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>> > "Mayayana" <mayayana(a)invalid.nospam> wrote:
>> >
>> >>I'm concerned about getting a lot of spam if
>> >>I use the actual domain name.
>> >
>> > Why not just use a free email account at Yahoo, Inbox.com, Gmail,
>> > Hotmail,
>> > etc and put that on your return address? That's what I do. My address
>> > here
>> > is one of those accounts. I do look at it from time to time in case I
>> > miss
>> > anything, but generally there's not much spam there, and even if there
>> > is,
>> > it's all in one spot.
>> >
>>
>> Set the mailaddress as ie @coldmail.com, those who likes to mail you will
>> know the real servername. ;)
>> Mailaddress sniffers will most likely not, and as said they all end-up in
>> one unimportant place.
>>
>> /Henning
>
> The people who own the real "coldmail.com" domain may not be too happy,
> though...
>
> D
>
Oooops... never looked for that... lets hope there is no other pre@ name
then ;)

/Henning


From: David Kerber on 3 Jun 2010 08:59
In article <u5u7TlqALHA.3608(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>,
computer_hero(a)coldmail.com says...

....

> >> Set the mailaddress as ie @coldmail.com, those who likes to mail
you will
> >> know the real servername. ;)
> >> Mailaddress sniffers will most likely not, and as said they all end-up in
> >> one unimportant place.
> >>
> >> /Henning
> >
> > The people who own the real "coldmail.com" domain may not be too happy,
> > though...
> >
> > D
> >
> Oooops... never looked for that... lets hope there is no other pre@ name
> then ;)

That's why it's recommended that when you want to make a munged e-mail
address for newsgroups, that you make the TLD ".invalid" (or something
equally obviously invalid), because that way you won't accidentally
collide with some real domain name.

D
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