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Many email systems support username variants. If you have "username@gmail.com", you can do: username+organization@gmail.com as your slack login. I do th
by adekok 9y ago
Many email systems support username variants. If you have "username@gmail.com", you can do:
username+organization@gmail.com
as your slack login. I do this all of the time.
Why remember things when you can have a formula to determine which username to use?
- DougWebb 9y agoMost of the time when I try that, the site's form validation complains that + is not a valid character. Very annoying. I think most of the time it's due to an over-specific whitelist, and sometimes it's due to url-escaping turning + into a space. Or maybe there's a regex and someone doesn't know how to escape literal + characters.
- roblabla 9y agoYeah, I had that problem with some US govt website when applying for ESTA. I have since fixed the problem : My email is *@roblab.la, and I just put whatever the org's name as the username part of my email. So far it has worked basically everywhere, except on aliexpress, where they disallow aliexpress@EMAIL_DOMAIN. Probably to avoid people posing as staff >_>'.
- qw 9y agoI tried that too 15 years ago, but had to stop after a year. It turns out many spammers send mails to random usernames
- roblabla 9y agoSo far spam hasn't been a problem (I get none). I have spamassassin set up, but it doesn't filter anything for now, just scores stuff. If it ever gets to the point where I get too much spam, I'll probably start to filter it.
- StavrosK 9y agoI use 33mail for countering spam, and I recently switched to my own domain. So I might do organization@33mail.com, or slack@33mail.com, or organization@mydomain.com, or slack@mydomain.com, and it's a huge hassle to be trying all these combinations.