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The problem.
To understand how SpamTrail works, you must first understand how junk e-mail
senders get your e-mail address. To put it simply, you
give it to them (although you probably don't do it on purpose).
Lets say you want to make a purchase from www.SomeOnlineStore.com. Along
with your name, address, and credit card, you also need to give them your
e-mail address (you do want to receive a confirmation when your order is
shipped, don't you?).
Well, after your order is filled, www.SomeOnlineStore.com may send you
future e-mails. Also, SomeOnlineStore may sell their e-mail list to others,
so now you are getting junk mail not only from SomeOnlineStore, but from
whoever else they sold your e-mail address to.
Of course, one of the buyers of the list could in turn re-sell
the list, and it goes on and on. In Internet time, it takes only a short
while before you are on thousands of lists. At this point, your e-mail
address is no longer yours. Sending a "remove" reply to a given sender would
remove you from only that sender's list, if it works at all.
The solution:
Using SpamTrail, you never give out your real e-mail address!
Instead, SpamTrail allows you to create email addresses and hand
them out any time you need one.
When you set up an account with SpamTrail, you are
assigned your own virtual mail server for which you can have an unlimited
number of email addresses. When mail arrives at your personal server for
any of your virtual e-mail addresses, it is automatically forwarded to your
REAL email address.
For example, lets say your SpamTrail account name is "jdoe." This means your
personal mail server's name would be jdoe.spamtrail.com. When asked for an
e-mail address by www.SomeOnlineStore.com, you NEVER give them your real
private e-mail. Instead, you simply make up an email address.
To make it easy for you to remember where the
address comes from, give them something like SomeOnlineStore@jdoe.spamtrail.com.
When SomeOnLineStore sends an e-mail to the address you gave them, the SpamTrail
server will immediately forward it to your real e-mail account.
Now, lets say SomeOnlineStore is a bad Internet citizen and sells your
email address to a bulk e-mailer, and they in turn sell it to someone else.
Before you know it, e-mails are coming in from numerous senders, all
addressed to SomeOnlineStore@jd.spamtrail.com. Well, all you need to do is
go to your SpamTrail account and tell SpamTrail to stop forwarding any
e-mails sent to that address. With one command, you can eliminate HUNDREDS
of e-mails coming from numerous senders. In addition, you now know the
origin of the privacy "leak" - information you would never have without
SpamTrail.
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