Disposable Email Addresses
From:
Dorje McKinnon
Date:
Apr 14 03:48 UTC
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Thanks Richard,
I guess what I was really trying to ask is - How are Online groups sure that
the fix just put in place hasn't cut out the target users for X online group ?
I assume you've got a list - hopefully dynamic, which lists all the domains
which are used by spammers for this sort of thing and that hopefully no real
users have email accounts on these domains.
The reason I raise this is that many years ago in the dark ages of the internet
a national ISP domain was breached by spammers and the legitimate email holders
for that domain were barred from certain services because the isp had been
breached and blacklisted.
If onlinegroups.net makes the list available to admins e.g. a php page listing
the domains that are blocked then the admin could quickly identify why a user
was having a problem. Better yet if the admin listing of users for a group
showed an icon next to users who had email addresses that matched the list then
the admins could resolve access problems even quicker.
Not wanting to be down on you guys because you do an awesome job and provide a
great product - just trying to think ahead of the curve to potential problems.
Dorje
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Waid [mailto:richard@iopen.net]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 3:36 PM
To: <email obscured>
Subject: Re: [OGN Admins] Disposable Email Addresses
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 15:12 +1200, <email obscured> wrote:
> Could you give some examples of what a 'disposable email address is'
> or how onlinegroups will be blocking them ?
Hi Dorje:
A disposable address is a temporary email address, typically used to signup for
services that don't really need your email address other than to spam you (for
example, buying something from a company over the Internet).
One example is www.spamgourmet.com.
Now, this is very useful, but it's also very useful for spammers to sign up to
onlinegroups.net, verify their account, and have no further accountability. Out
of 20,000 odd users we have seen through the software, only the spammers appear
to have used these accounts.
Often they are also time limited (say, to 7 days), which means that eventually
they will bounce requiring us to do bounce-management work (and eventually we
will have an interface for the admin's to see this, which means extra work for
them as well!)
The tweak that Mike has made is to prevent users from signing up or adding a
disposable address to their account.
Best regards,
Richard Waid
Technical Director
onlinegroups.net
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