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I agree -- I rarely (few times per week) receive spam to my main inbox. I used to obfuscate my email address, but realized it doesn't matter. Spammers will get
by kalid 16y ago
I agree -- I rarely (few times per week) receive spam to my main inbox.
I used to obfuscate my email address, but realized it doesn't matter. Spammers will get at you no matter what (unused email addresses get spam), and obfuscation just annoys people who would like to contact you. I let GMail do its job.
- uxp 16y agoI once ran a grep on my personal postfix mailserver's logs. Turns out I would constantly 550 bounce spam for email addresses that didn't exist for my domains. Thousands of connections a day, all looking for adam@, barry@, charles@... and down an alphabetical list. That, on top of the relay requests, would fill up a single day's logfile 5 times faster than authorized traffic.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoThis is why I stopped using firstname@domain and started using firstname.surname@domain. Tends to stop the dictionary attacks from working.