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Old 03-20-2004, 11:25 AM  
goBigtime
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Quote:
Originally posted by Wilber

Change your email address to block spam? Your admin skills are brilliant.
As are your skills in comprehension.

What I'm saying is, for example your [email protected] account was compromised somehow... maybe Amazon got hacked and their entire database was compromised etc....

And you start receiving junk email to [email protected]...

You would immediately blacklist [email protected]
Then log into your Amazon account and change your Amazon account email to something new like.. [email protected] and whitelist that email address.

The only person that legitimately should have been mailing [email protected] was Amazon, and they have now been updated with a new address for them, so you can now blacklist the old address and you will never see the junkmails.

Advanced tactics could reply to the blacklisted emails with a fake bounce so that the mail flow would cut down as well (mailers do typically remove bounces)

Last edited by goBigtime; 03-20-2004 at 11:29 AM..
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