From: Ralf Hildebrandt (no email)
Date: Thu Jan 01 2004 - 12:08:02 EST
* Derrick 'dman' Hudson <>:
> I interned at a non-profit at one point. The admin there had a
> catchall so mistyped local parts would still be delivered and he
> could then forward real mail on to the real recipient. If a given
> typo was particularly common then he'd add an alias for that user.
> The user base (both users with accounts and others who may interact
> with the users) are rather non-technical and he decided it was better
> for him to transparently correct those mistakes than to let someone
> be utterly confused when the mail wasn't delivered. He simply accepts
> the side-effect that all dictionary-attack spam lands in that account
> too and he must sift through it.
That's why I wrote "fuzzy".
-- Ralf Hildebrandt my current spamtrap http://www.arschkrebs.de/postfix/ Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 "Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made." -- George Burns
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