OT Spam traps ffs

Right, how come I have intermittent probs with my spam trap posting to the
ng?

I like to use when possible but
tonight when trying to reply to oldbloke it wouldn't let me?

Anyone up on these feckin' things?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Donegal Paul said:

Try putting the REMOVE in your name somewhere and not after the @

 

Donegal Paul wrote

Dunno mate. They do the strangest of things. Yesterday mine had Blaney
blacklisted and highlighted in red into the bargain. Why on earth would
it do a thing like that?

 

"Whinging Courier" said to Donegal Paul said:

Tried that, but if I do, it gets through to me anyway so doesn't act as a
spamtrap, I think I have one of those emails where I can have anything
infront of the @ :-/

 

Would that not mean their servers actually check the domain extension of
every email / message sent via them?
Christ that seems a lot of work!

 

Donegal Paul said:

You can, but why not reject everything that is not to a valid user?

 

Not if they've got their DNS setup sorted

 

<reversed YTC-mode>

Revenge from Microsoft for not using their programmes, just get with the
picture and use Outlook Express ;-)

 

I have that too. But I know that the address I use here, i.e. ukrm@
is not really valid and that anything received is probably spam.

This, of course, doesn't work very well unless I want someone to
e-mail me and forget to tell whoever to replace 'ukrm' with 'chris'.

 

I started getting that. I used to use
"hoodoowitch at nospamplease_hindcottage dot co dot uk" and obviously
didn't want to use the full "proper" domain name. I think it's the
newsserver started checking. (news.cis.dfn.de)

So I changed my addy to mickey at disney. Works now.