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Originally posted by shelded
And if you're lucky all sorts of spammers won't figure out that your username@eml.cc is a way to get in touch with you.
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Or better still, if (say) you use
hitler@nazi.gov.de to post to newsgroups, spammers will take that for your real address, and lower the already-negative value of their lists by adding it!
BTW, I just tried to log in to my FastMail account, but accidentally used my OperaMail password. When I succeeded (using the correct password), the server warned me of the "unauthorised" attempt to access my mailbox! I like that, it shows real concern for customers!
(edit: the exact greeting message I got was:
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Welcome to FastMail Robert Baker. It's a little after quarter past three in the afternoon .
Your last successful login was at Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:21 PM
There was 1 failed login attempt between your last successful login and this login. The last failed attempt occured at Thu, 28 Feb 2002 3:16 PM
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I know of no other mail provider which notifies its customers about potential security breaches like this...)