Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 10:27:43 -0800 (PST) To: (Vintners Net Customers) Subject: spam prevention -- using "role" aliases And another useful technique to aid in spam prevention is using email aliases for yourself -- using "role" names. Remember that your Vintners.Net email configuration forwards any email to any reasonable address at your domain to you, regardless of the specific address in the "To: " line. This can be used to help allow you to change addresses occasionally within your domain. For example, if you have a page hawking your wares, regardless of your using the recommended 'sendemail' script or not, you should not use your own personal email address here. Instead, use a "role" name, like , , , , , etc. This allows you much flexibility in the future: a) If your company were to grow enough to have an additional body handling sales, this different address could be silently redirected to them. b) If this address were to find itself drowning in spam, it could be changed without affecting other uses. Other addresses on your site might be or for finding your business, , , or . Specific roles within the organization like or , maybe or , they're endless. These are all means of minimizing the exposure of your specific email address, allowing you better control of what you'll have to read. Best of luck! -- Mike Lempriere; http://vintners.net/~mikel/ WA State resident: junk email prohibited by law: RCW19.190 & RCW19.86