Re: [Asrg] request for review for a non FUSSP proposal

[Steve Atkins <[e-mail]>]

On Jun 22, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Paul Russell wrote:

> On 6/22/2009 17:12, Claudio Telmon wrote:
>> Well, this stream doubling is something many already do, keeping one
>> address for close friends and business partners, not disclosing it in
>> order to avoid spam and other messages. But again you're right, the
>> framework would need reach a critical mass in some time, or it  
>> would be
>> abandoned even by early adopters.
>
> Back in the day when most spammers obtained addresses by harvesting  
> them from
> web pages, you could, for the most part, keep a mailbox spam-free by  
> disclosing
> your email address only to those from whom you wanted to receive  
> email.  The sun
> set on that scene long ago.  Spammers generate potential recipient  
> addresses
> based on common names and naming schemes, or harvest them from  
> address books and
> private mail archives on compromised systems.  Security by obscurity  
> seldom
> works for very long.

Also any actual usage of an email address leads to it being in a mailbox
on a Windows machine. That, in turn, leads to it being sprayed all over
the internet by viruses, and hence harvested by spammers.

I have lots of uniquely created addresses that were provably not guessed
that get a lot of spam via that route.

Cheers,
   Steve