Minimize Spam Threats with Locked Addresses

With more and more spam being sent around, people are creating innovative approaches to deal with it. We had normal anti spam software for some time, then a year ago anti virus companies started buying anti spam specialists and bundling their technology inside their “mother” products. A month ago we reported about a blog service that helps tackling spam and today I came across a service that has a new approach to minimizing the threat of spam. The service called CanIt ‘Locked Addresses’ offers you the possibility to create unlimited ammount of forwarders to your real e-mail address. It remembers the first sender to the newly created forwarder and from that point on it only lets this specific address to send e-mails to your newly created address. Quite effective, altought it seems that some problems can quickly arise – if you use the e-mail address to subscribe to a mailing list, usually you will first receive an automated reply from one address and the real posts to the mailing list will most probably come from a different sender.

These Locked Addresses are included with all purchases of Roaring Penguin Software’s CanIt-PRO Anti-Spam Solution. I hope the company will soon offer a possibility to purchase this service as a standalone product.

A good thing to mention is that to help small organizations reduce the costs associated with managing spam, Roaring Penguin is offering a free version of CanIt for enterprises under 50 employees.