> Agreed.  I've looked at this before, and almost used it, but I like
> being able to know *who* actually sent the spam.  I've busted many
> companies, even though their privacy policy claimed otherwise.  One of
> the latest is buy.com, btw.  Another popular spot to never give your
> email address to is eio.com . Mostly these companies blatantly sell the
> email addresses, but in some cases I have reason to believe that
> they're harvested.

I run my own email server, so this solution isn't for everyone, but I make
up a unique email address for every different contact I have to provide on
a web page.  This makes it very easy to tell who gave my email address to
a spammer, and to shut off that channel selectively by disabling that
address.

For example, if I'm buying something from crapco.com, I'll make up a new
email address something like crapco@embedinc.com.  Another good trick if
there is no legitimate reason that crapco needs my email address but they
require it anyway, just fill in sales@crapco.com.  The same thing works if
a fax address is required (there's almost never a legitimate reason for
that).  Just fill in the Crapco's own toll free number.


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