Just to clarify - I didn't mean to pick on Mark in
particular, so if it came across that way, I'm sorry.
I wasn't saying my idea was THE reason, just saying it
was a possiblity. My apologies if that wasn't clear.

My main reason for pointing this out is in defense of
our trusty mailing list maintainer: I have not
received one email that came to me for an unknown
reason at this address. Not one. This is the only
address I use for this mailing list.

In the past I chose to experiment with the random idea
by creating an email address to do nothing but sit and
collect dust for a while, and after giving that
address to no one, I still received spam - in
particular, that exact pheromones advertisement, and a
few viagra ads.

-Sharon


--- ar--marktaw.mailshell.com wrote:
> Sharon Said:
>
> >In Mark's case, his personalized domain most likely
> >comes from a company that issues domain names. His
> >domain is really something completely different,
> and
> >marktaw.mailshell.com (or whatever it is) is just
> an
> >alias for another larger, registered domain, so his
> >real email address is probably something like
> >ar_marktaw--mailshell.com or 65124AU--mailshell.com
> or
> >something - which is why it, too, can be hit with
> >random spamming, in spite of the "unique" domain
> name.
>
> With mailshell you get your own personal subdomain -
> marktaw - and anything before the at you can make up
> as you go along. It's sort of a spam filtering
> system where if you want to enter a contest, you
> create contest--yourname.mailshell.com.
>
> If they were randomly generating my address based on
> my domain name, I'd be getting ar (at) as (at) at (at) as
> well... If they were blanketing every address
> (at)mailshell.com then I'd get it to other addresses as
> well.
>
> I have to admit that I've used ar (at) other times,
> accidentaly because for a few days it was the
> default address I sent anything from (being first
> alphabetically).
>
> So if not everyone is receiving spam than I have a
> few guesses why.
>
> 1. Not everyone contributes to the list, and the bot
> couldn't harvest you if you never posted.
> 2. You've used this address in other places.
> 3. Your spam guard caught it.
> 4. They sent one long ago with some sort of
> confirmation .gif or something (i.e. a call back to
> their server that you received it) and you opened
> it, and your email client doesn't filter these out.
>
> Regards
> Mark
>
>
>
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