tvScience Hosting - Timeout Addresses.

As a service to our clients we offer a special range of time-limited email addresses like the following:

• enquiry-NNN@your-domain.com
• mail-NNN@your-domain.com
• reply-NNN@your-domain.com
• subscription-NNN@your-domain.com
• news-NNN@your-domain.com

To use, replace NNN with today's date in any of the following formats: YYYYMMDD, YYYYMM or YYYY, These are vaild during for a limited time only. After that, mail bounces with a "Out of date address" error.

Each can be forwarded to any destination as with other email routing. Once set-up, no further action is needed as the rollover is automatic.

These are useful as an anti-SPAM measure in any of the following circumstances:

• For "mailto:enquiry-2008@your-domain.com" links on webpages. You'll need to update these by hand or use a scripted page (see below).
• When posting an email adddress to newsgroups or in chatrooms.
• When subscribing to an email-based newsletter service.

In all the above you may only want to accept replies for a limited time and not be bombarded by SPAM for years in the future. This facility is ideal for this.

There is a grace period after any particular date's expiry.

Examples:

The examples below are produced from today's date of 04–07–2008:

• enquiry-2008@your-domain.com is valid between December 2007 and March 2009.
• enquiry-2009@your-domain.com will be valid between December 2008 and March 2010.
• enquiry-200807@your-domain.com is valid for July and August 2008.
• enquiry-20080704@your-domain.com is valid for today and tomorrow only.

Webpage Example:

Using SSI directives within HTML:

<p><!--#config timefmt="%Y"-->Enquiries to:
<a href="mailto:enquiry-<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL"-->@tv-science.co.uk">enquiry-<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL"-->@tv-science.co.uk</a>.</p>

Enquiries to: enquiry-2008@tv-science.co.uk.

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