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Gem of an idea

Well, the *germ* of a gem ... as it stands, it would probably only appeal to the advanced user, just a bit complex for the beginner. But then, there's plenty of experienced email users.

>When an entry is "rotated", a new password is generated and the old one marked old. When
>a message is received at the old one, an automatic message is sent to the correspondent
>saying “My email address has changed. Please resend your message to my new address.
>My new address is BLAH” – where BLAH is the encoded email address with the new >password in it.
Erm, wouldn't that mean that you'd send your new address to a spammer?

Segmail is a creative concept and probably could be made to work in a practical sense; thank you for bringing it out for discussion :-)))

Elaine in Brisbane, Australia

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