6th August 2005, 10:36 AM
That helps, it reallly does, but you are still subject to random e-mail address generators. Some of these programs will actually just generate a lot of random characters and tag it in front of known e-mail domains. So, you can still get stuff just at random. The worst is someitmes they randomly generate the "from" address too (so you can't track them, the thing about e-mail is it's a "dumb" protocal, with no way to actually force any of the data to be honest). This is only really bad when out of the blue you get an e-mail from some angry person saying "stop sending me spam!", when clearly you have not nor could you have sent them said spam. Since I only really got these back when I still had a yahoo address, not even a virus could have been responsible for that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)