If nothing else, it’s interesting to know the source of spam. Considering how many tools are available to hide from email address harvesting ‘bots, I’m amazed that high profile websites still do it.

While I don’t use Eudora, I have experimented with the system you describe in the past. At this point, I use a different address when signing up for anything (this doesn’t let me track, but it doesn’t clog up my inbox either).

Shawn

If you couple this with a good set of filters, your mail will be automatically be sorted, and any addy which is generating spam can be replaced, after contacting the contact of real interest involved.

Setting this up takes time, but maintaining it takes very little time.

Case in point, The Nevada Chamber of Commerce maintains a website where I, as a member, have an ad. They insist on publishing my email right out in the open, instead of having it link through to the sender’s email application. This allows netbots to harvest the addy quickly and to start sending spam. I have changed the addy there three times since the beginning of the year, and will do it again today, as I am again getting up to 10 spams to that addy/day. Since their website is the only place the addy I give to them occurs in public, I know their posting are the source of the spam.

Fortunatelly they are the only ones generating that much spam traffic.