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Sincerely Aron Hess

I recently got a “newsletter” from somewhere which I
had never signed up for a newsletter. Now, I use a
junk account for all my web forms and newsletters
and such, and I forward these to my real, personal
account. When I start getting too much spam, I
throw away that account and start a new one, all the
while keeping my real one clean for family and
friends.
Well, I opened this “newsletter” because it seemed
catered to my interests, but it turned out to be
crap like normal. Well right after that, there was
something in my outbox… I looked and it was
a “read receipt” headed right back to the company,
with my legit address on it. Luckily I had Outlook
set to send messages only when I tell it to, because
if it had gone through, the flood would begin.
I just thought the viewers might like to know about
this, in case they use shill accounts forwarded to a
clean one too, or to set it to “never send a read
receipt”.

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4 Comments

I have OE set to prompt for receipts. Sometimes they're useful, but they never get sent to people I don't trust.

such a simple thing, that i never bothered to do…
thank you, thank you!

Good idea… I use the prompt for receipts as well. I never send receipts.

Also check out http://sneakemail.com. It allows you to set up random e-mail accounts that forward to your legit account so spammers never know your address. I've started using it for my new e-mail account and have when I get spam I'll just kill the sneakemail address it was sent to.

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