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How is this different/better than Gmail's address+spammer@gmail.com?

• ceejayoz 10y ago
  Spammers know to take off the +spammer part.
  • jalami 10y ago
    Also some websites won't let you put + in the address despite it being a valid character per protocol. Crippling email sign ups for one company, astonishing. Fastmail has subdomain addressing. eg. hackernews@myemail.fastmail.com which is a lot harder to detect.
    • JonathonW 10y ago
      I like Yahoo's approach-- they do their disposable email aliases like this: basename-spammerspecificsuffix@yahoo.com Where basename is user-chosen (and not necessarily related to the real email address), and the suffix has to be registered ahead of time (so a spammer can't just start randomly generating suffixes to avoid filters).
  • jweir 10y ago
    Couldn't spammers just start sending to (rand).username@mailhero ?
  • tempestn 10y ago
    Also you have to maintain the rules filtering out all the +spammers indefinitely. Presumably with this service or something like it, whenever you wanted to you could just create an entire fresh id. (As well as the ability to turn off specific addresses as they describe.)