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You can use email+bestbuy@gmail.com and email+hackernews@gmail.com for the same purpose. In case of spam you can add a filter and delete all emails to a given
by laskito 16y ago
You can use email+bestbuy@gmail.com and email+hackernews@gmail.com for the same purpose.
In case of spam you can add a filter and delete all emails to a given address.
- gst 16y agoIf I were a spammer the first thing I'd do to my database is removing the "+something" part in each gmail address.
- metageek 16y agoSo far they don't, though--presumably because it's rare enough that they don't care.
- troels 16y agoYeah, but you're assuming that spammers knows what the heck they're doing.
- jm4 16y agoYou think spammers don't know what they're doing? They have all sorts of methods for harvesting addresses, ranging from scraping to data theft. They have figured out how to send a virtual shit ton of messages a day at almost no cost to themselves by developing and running botnets. They are on the cutting edge, and arguably, a major driver behind computer vision which they use for breaking captchas. They are a thorn in the side of every ISP, email provider and sys admin in the world. Years and too many man hours to count have been spent trying to stop spam, with a combination of technology and law. Still, the spammers manage to keep their enterprises humming along. I think they have figured out how to sanitize email addresses.
- brk 16y agoSPAM has become a HUGE business. I'd guess they do have a pretty good idea about what they're doing.
- AdmiralBeotch 16y agoOP: I did the same thing... running a server for anything is the best way to get started in Linux.. I did a little write up on my "crazy ass email setup" here: http://julian.tosh.us/2010/01/my-crazyass-email-setup/ http://julian.tosh.us/2010/01/my-crazyass-email-setup/ It's evolved a bit since then and addresses gst's point... I've recently added regular expressions to my postfix maps so an email must match a certain pattern to get through... so it's more like a moderated catchall domain.
- duck 16y agoFor the newsletter I run I see almost 10% of subscribers doing just that and another 6% using custom emails.
- maguay 16y agoOr add a period in the middle of your email, e.g. em.ail@gmail.com. I usually do that when signing up for accounts online, then have all mail coming to a tweaked address autosorted into a folder...
- streeter 16y agoSome sites don't allow the '+' operator in email addresses. I used to do this but now run a catchall on my personal domain name.
- bambax 16y agoYes, but there are many sites (even reputable ones that should know better) that don't allow email addresses with a + in it. It's infuriating... but it's real...
- avree 16y agoSome signups still don't allow '+' signs. His method is better, albeit harder to set up.