Not only too complicated, also irrelevant. As I am using a catch-all, there are no "unknown" addresses. When filling out forms that ask me for my address, I'll make up something on the spot @mydomain.
I do this too, and have done for, ooh, about a yeah and a half? The only trouble is that you can also get spam sent to addresses which are randomly generated (happens to me about once every couple of months). When I first signed up to my domain and set it up, I got spam to gabriell@domain which was weird (the domain info is the domain registry's anonymous thing, and my name isn't anything like Gabriell). And actually, I have a couple of domains, one which I have a catch-all address on, which I only use for email. It has nothing on the website (just a "fuck off, there's nothing here"), so that people can't easily find my real email address from that.
The only trouble I have is wanting to reply to people with the address that they email. I use Evolution, and I can't find a way to make it automatically insert the "to" address in the "From" field for the reply email. Ummm...
Yes, I was going to say. I've been using this with Yahoo for ages. Actually though, I think that if you have a yahoo.com login, you have to pay to get this extra feature (Yahoo Plus). But me, with a.co.uk and a.com.au login*, I have it for free. Plus I have POP access, so I don't even see ads on the Yahoo site any more...
As for all the Google fanbois:
Aliases joins an existing multiple e-mail address feature offered in both Hotmail and Google's Gmail that uses a plus symbol after a user name, but before the @ symbol. Users would then add any word after the plus symbol to create an identifiable address (e.g. Josh+newstip@Hotmail.com). This lets messages get filtered into folders, while also providing a way to see if that retailer you bought something from sold your address to a third party.
However the big problems with that system are that it's easy to see the person's real address, and some sites and forms might not let you use the plus symbol. In this sense, Microsoft's new system promises to offer a higher level of privacy along with compatibility when running across sites that won't let you use special characters.
The biggest difference between the Yahoo and Hotmail systems are that with Yahoo you pick a prefix, and the new emails are created with that prefix and a hyphen. E.g. you might have dandyboy as your prefix, you could then create aliases dandyboy-slashboy@yahoo.com.au or dandyboy-cnetsucks@yahoo.com.au. However, any email to dandyboy@yahoo.com.au will get discarded (unlike with the plus addressing system).
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* or maybe because I ticked a box at some stage saying "you can spam me"? -- they send about one email a month to the.com.au which gets deleted unread, and none to the.co.uk
I still call the place Bombay, just like I still call Burma, well, Burma. Why? Well, in the case of Bombay: (from )
This came at the insistence of the Marathi nationalist Shiv Sena party that had just won the Maharashtra state elections and mirrored similar name changes across the country.
Fuck the racist nationalist scum.
In Burma (from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma#Etymology>)
In 1989, the military government officially changed the English translations of many colonial-era names, including the name of the country to "Myanmar".
"Defective by design" is a term created specifically to describe "digital restrictions management" , where you are, by design restricted from accessing legitimately purchased media. I doubt very much that MS deliberately decided to make this tool work best on "de-obfuscated code". Indeed, I would like to suggest that this is an initial release, and that they are, probably as I type this, working to make the program better.
In the FLOSS world programs are often released without being perfect, because people like the idea of "release early, release often". It gives users a chance to play with new features soon after they are written etc.
So, I'm going to suggest that in this case, MS is not being bad.
Links that are relevant:
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Not only too complicated, also irrelevant. As I am using a catch-all, there are no "unknown" addresses. When filling out forms that ask me for my address, I'll make up something on the spot @mydomain.
I do this too, and have done for, ooh, about a yeah and a half? The only trouble is that you can also get spam sent to addresses which are randomly generated (happens to me about once every couple of months). When I first signed up to my domain and set it up, I got spam to gabriell@domain which was weird (the domain info is the domain registry's anonymous thing, and my name isn't anything like Gabriell).
And actually, I have a couple of domains, one which I have a catch-all address on, which I only use for email. It has nothing on the website (just a "fuck off, there's nothing here"), so that people can't easily find my real email address from that.
The only trouble I have is wanting to reply to people with the address that they email. I use Evolution, and I can't find a way to make it automatically insert the "to" address in the "From" field for the reply email. Ummm...
Yes, I was going to say. I've been using this with Yahoo for ages. Actually though, I think that if you have a yahoo.com login, you have to pay to get this extra feature (Yahoo Plus). But me, with a .co.uk and a .com.au login*, I have it for free. Plus I have POP access, so I don't even see ads on the Yahoo site any more...
As for all the Google fanbois:
The biggest difference between the Yahoo and Hotmail systems are that with Yahoo you pick a prefix, and the new emails are created with that prefix and a hyphen. E.g. you might have dandyboy as your prefix, you could then create aliases dandyboy-slashboy@yahoo.com.au or dandyboy-cnetsucks@yahoo.com.au. However, any email to dandyboy@yahoo.com.au will get discarded (unlike with the plus addressing system).
footnote * or maybe because I ticked a box at some stage saying "you can spam me"? -- they send about one email a month to the .com.au which gets deleted unread, and none to the .co.uk
Fuck the racist nationalist scum. In Burma (from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma#Etymology>)
Again, fuck the military government.
"Defective by design" is a term created specifically to describe "digital restrictions management" , where you are, by design restricted from accessing legitimately purchased media. I doubt very much that MS deliberately decided to make this tool work best on "de-obfuscated code". Indeed, I would like to suggest that this is an initial release, and that they are, probably as I type this, working to make the program better.
In the FLOSS world programs are often released without being perfect, because people like the idea of "release early, release often". It gives users a chance to play with new features soon after they are written etc.
So, I'm going to suggest that in this case, MS is not being bad.
Links that are relevant: