OT: wise username@domain.com

[Glenn Steen]

On 25/01/07, BB <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Most mail servers I have setup in the past have very English looking email
> address -
>
> joe at domain.com
> jill at domain.com
>
>  The large place I'm doing contract work at now use a coreID (employee
> number) as the username.  The real English name is still displayed in the
> mail client setup.
>
> Seems to eliminate spam.  Certainly stops dictionary attacks.
>
> Anybody else using this kind of setup ?
>
Have doen in the past... Used cryptic combinations of letters and numbers.
But that really doesn't "defeat" dictionary attacs/harvesting ... It
might "delay" things a tad, but you will be seeing spam, trust me:-).

If the scheme is relatively new, that might explain low volumes -> no
spam... Or if they have very strict email address use policies, that
might keep things down for a while too.

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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