Long Email Address

Would you like to foil the Spammers once and for all? Would you like an email address that is beyond their reach? It is easy to have an email address they can't get. The answer lies in the length of your name.

Spammers run every combination of letters against a domain looking for valid addresses. There are about 50 letter/number combinations in the alphabet, A through Z, 1 to 9, and other special characters. If an email address is one character long, they have to run 50 trials to pick up the address. If the address is two characters long, they have to run 50 * 50 (or 2500) trials to pick up the address.

Spammers have banks of computers running harvesting programs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week looking for a few valid addresses. If an address is 5 characters long (like admin@ for example) they have to run 50 * 50 * 50 * 50 * 50 (or 312,500,000) trials to find that address. They don't mind that. It doesn't cost anything and it doesn't take that long, only a few minutes.

However, consider an address 15 characters long or longer. Now they have a problem. Instead of taking 5 or 10 minutes to harvest your email address, they're in for a challenge. As the name gets longer, the trials (and processing time) go up exponentially. Instead of minutes, they're into days, weeks, or even months of calculating to find your name. Adding length to your email address puts it beyond their reach. They just don't have the time to do that many calculations.

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