[Dictionarysearch] Dictionarysearch has become a spammer

[Dan Black]

"Ran Chermesh" <rancherm at bgu.ac.il> said:
{- I keep getting spam email thru my dictionarysearch specific email address.
{- So, be aware of it!!!
{- I've blocked my address and recommend you to follow suit.

Looking back through my spam (from 2004-2006; I wouldn't have been on
this list before that), I only found two spams sent to this unique
address.  One was 11 May 2006 (Nigerian scam variant) and the other was
29 Jun 2006 from some Japanese address and with some Japanese charset
that I didn't bother decoding or reading.

Of course, now that I'm sending a message to the whole list, maybe
that'll change.  It's probably spammers reading the list who wouldn't
get the email address from simply being on the list and reading it.

Still, if you have the means, it's always a good idea to use (and
document) unique addresses for pretty much everything (I funnel all my
addresses into one actual real email account), and make sure it's easy
to turn them off.  Sure comes in handy -- I have over 250 unique
addresses like that so far, created over several years, and I've only
had to shut off I think two of them.

But some people don't have the means -- you pretty much need your own
domain and control over your own email addresses within that domain.

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