Seems a bother to be making a new address for each party you don't trust. I've been using a challenge-response system for many years quite successfully. myprivacy.ca was originally created as a whois harvester buster. It's a mail forwarder but if the sender isn't whitelisted then he gets back an email asking him to prove he's human. All he has to do is reply to do that. Then the system will forward his original email. There's room for 15 whitelisted entries and you can use pattern matching. You also have an option to passthrough all mail. This is the one email I use for anybody I don't trust and it strikes me as a far more efficient method than what hotmail's come up with.
Maybe they should copy that.;-)
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Seems a bother to be making a new address for each party you don't trust. I've been using a challenge-response system for many years quite successfully. myprivacy.ca was originally created as a whois harvester buster. It's a mail forwarder but if the sender isn't whitelisted then he gets back an email asking him to prove he's human. All he has to do is reply to do that. Then the system will forward his original email. There's room for 15 whitelisted entries and you can use pattern matching. You also have an option to passthrough all mail. This is the one email I use for anybody I don't trust and it strikes me as a far more efficient method than what hotmail's come up with. Maybe they should copy that. ;-)