| 摘要 |
A method for blocking Spam sent to an email address of an individual, comprising: establishing an intermediating email address, for corresponding with a party of interest without revealing the permanent email address of the individual; indicating an email message sent to the intermediating email address as Spam unless the sender thereof is the party of interest. On indicating an email message as Spam, blocking the email message. On indicating an email message as non-Spam, redirecting the email message to the permanent email address of the individual. In one embodiment of the invention, the intermediating email address expires after a predefined or arbitrary period. The method may be implemented by an email client associated with the intermediating email address, an email server, a proxy server, a gateway server and so forth.
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