30 Mar
2023
30 Mar
'23
2:04 a.m.
On Wednesday 29 March 2023 18:49:16 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
Email is moving in the direction of more tracking information in order
to make it easier to validate authentic emails and track spammers.
If you look at the headers of your email you will find several occurrences
of your email address which would be hard to filter out.
Personally I use different email addresses for different purposes.
(Running my own mail server makes this easy. YMMV.) If a spammer
ever latches on to mgb-trinity(a)yosemite.net I'll just change it.
--Mike
Actually, I only use this one email address at present. I don't like this,
because I would rather keep one email for personal stuff, another for
business, shopping, paying bills, etc., and yet others for different
purposes; my dabbling in music, for instance (for which this present email
address was originally intended). But now I must provide a working telephone
number, sacrifice my firstborn child, and sell my soul to Google or some
other corporation, and so on.
I am considering buying a server; not merely for my personal email (as that
would be overkill), but also maybe to run my own online radio station, as
leasing server space has proved to be not viable for my needs at present. But
I must do some more thinking before I take a step like that. I already
started down this path a few months ago, and found that available servers
were inadequate, as they are all changing over to SSDs, and as a result their
available space is shrinking.
If there are several email addresses in my headers (thus harder to filter),
they are all only really my personal email address & the TDE mailing list
(users(a)trinitydesktop.org). And I bcc a copy to myself, just to make sure
it's going through, but I suppose I could give up that luxury if it would be
better for filtering on the mailing list.
Bill