Well, I finally changed the e-mail address on my phone to something less
obvious (katonokeitai@docomo.ne.jp--but don't use that: see below). That
process was actually a pleasure; you just fill in your preferred choices
in order on a form on a web page, and it comes back instantly telling
you which one you got. The changeover appears to happen instantly.
However, it wasn't five minutes before I got my first spam. Obviously,
the new e-mail addresses are being leaked as fast as they are
created. Possibly official partners get them and are leaking them somehow?
(The message did not appear to come directly from an official partner. It
was from melon@oishii.jp, with the subject "Re: I understand!", and
started out apologising for the late reply. I can't see why an official
partner would try to pass off his spam as being an overdue reply from
a friend.)
I'm going to leave my system as it is for a week or so to see what kind
of spam I'm getting, but if it continues on like this I'm obviously going
to have to enable blocking of everything except that forwarded via my new
"official" address, keitai@cynic.net. (I'd do this by blocking all but one
envelope sender, and making all messages forwarded through keitai@cynic.net
come from that envelope sender.)
cjs
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Basically, a tool is an object that enables you to take advantage of the laws
of physics and mechanics in such a way that you can seriously injure yourself.
--Dave Barry
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Received on Thu Jul 19 11:52:07 2001