mcfnord_twice wrote:you really have thought of everything. now i have two hobbies! first, designate perhaps 46,000 permutations of one, two, and three character prefixes as zero-remaining and hidden addresses as they're generated by my spammer friend (or alternatively switch to watchword until he goes away), and then watch that space for any one of my 700+ existing addresses that ought to become hidden. thanks, i'll send money again soon.
Very funny, but no no no, you didn't read 'till the end. Again, here's my system:
1. Have
one unguessable watchword, e.g. "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."
2. Never use the watchword in an address. [Obviously...]
3. Create all new addresses on-site, using sg's
"send a message from one of your disposable addresses" feature.
(New addresses created this way are "exempt" from, i.e. bypass, the watchword requirement.)
Do this, and spammers can't touch you. Simple, effective, and far less time consuming than any alternative. The only fly in the ointment was discussed in the other thread, and now Syskoll has fixed that as well.
Addendum - no, sorry, we no longer have the option to "switch to watchword until he goes away" - they're not going away. Our days of flying under the radar are over; this is the situation we have to deal with, and I can't think of any other way to do so that works remotely as well.