In the 12 years that spamgourmet has been up, I've had surprisingly few requests by third parties to get the identity of or have me forward a message to a spamgourmet user who apparently isn't receiving (or reading) their messages. Strangely, this happened much more often in the beginning, with many fewer spamgourmet users than we have today. Maybe the futility of reaching past a disposable address has percolated into the collective consciousness.
Anyway, I received a message from someone a few days ago asking me to forward it to a spamgourmet user -- the sender purportedly found out about the user on a geneaology website and thinks they're related, and wants to contact the user to ask some specific family-tree questions. Could it be fake? You bet, and I'm not going to do extensive research to try and find out, but, let me just say it passes the sniff test, and I've been doing this for a while.
Should I send it? I've never done that before. To send it, I'd need to look up the user's forwarding address and then forward the message. Simple to do, but not altogether clean-feeling.
I suppose I could also instruct the sender to try making up a new disposable address to send the message (assuming the one he/she was trying to use is expired), which might work, depending on the user's advanced mode settings (which I *could* check and see, but somehow that would feel even less appropriate).
Alternatives are to simply ignore the request (which I admittedly have done for other messages that did not pass the sniff test), or to respond to the sender saying I can't (won't) do it (and possibly invite additional pleas or discussion that I don't have time to respond to).
What do you think?
Josh