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Couldn't you do something like: 1. Register foo@gmail.com 2. Give out your email address to friends and family as foo+bar@gmail.com 3. Give out your email addr
by oneeyedpigeon 9y ago
Couldn't you do something like:
1. Register foo@gmail.com
2. Give out your email address to friends and family as foo+bar@gmail.com
3. Give out your email address to services as foo+{service name}@gmail.com
4. Reject anything coming directly to foo@gmail.com
- desdiv 9y agoMany spammers have caught onto the foo+bar trick. When they detect such an address they will spam both foo+bar@gmail.com and foo@gmail.com.
- kgwgk 9y agoRead his message carefully. They don't know about foo+bar@gmail.com
- logicallee 9y agoThat is a different kind of obscurity, as if that were my protocol a spammer could make up a keyword and it would be delivered until I realized that it wasn't myself who made it up. Maybe there is a way to whitelist keywords and only deliver tags I add one at a time via filters, but it is not the usual interface.