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I added the +coin name to my email when signing up for a crypto-related product years ago, have since seen that redistributed a dozen times for very obscure ICO

I added the +coin name to my email when signing up for a crypto-related product years ago, have since seen that redistributed a dozen times for very obscure ICO projects.

toomanybeersies 9y ago
The problem with this strategy is that it's trivial to run a script to strip off the +coin from the end. I have my own domain name, so I've started using address aliases for different things. There's no way that they can get around that.
- gruez 9y ago
  >There's no way that they can get around that. unless you use high entropy aliases, there's nothing preventing someone from filtering out all the emails with "uncommon" domains for secondary examination. at that point, you can manually ascertain whether the email address is an alias or not. john@example.com probably a legit address bitcoin@example.com probably an alias at that point you can either not send to that email, or if you're extra evil, try to frame another company (try sending to amazon@example.com or ethereum@example.com). it's not even that hard to do because 99.9% of people don't use custom email domains.
  - kalleboo 9y ago
    Email marketing is a numbers game, I doubt anyone is wasting time looking at individual addresses.
    - Zak 9y ago
      And even if a script could easily process addresses in an automated manner, it might be actively harmful to a marketer to do so. People who intentionally use disposable addresses are probably less likely to respond to email marketing and more likely to take actions against the marketer.
- thefifthsetpin 9y ago
  It's trivial to write that script, but not any more trivial than just generating lots of common_name@common_domain email addresses. Once you're willing to spam emails that didn't opt-in even to a list that you bought, you've entered into very shady territory.
- amelius 9y ago
  Email providers should make it easy to create a (temporary) alias. E.g.: x6ab2fe0e@example.com

I added the +coin name to my email when signing up for a crypto-related product years ago, have since seen that redistributed a dozen times for very obscure ICO projects.

toomanybeersies 9y ago

The problem with this strategy is that it's trivial to run a script to strip off the +coin from the end. I have my own domain name, so I've started using address aliases for different things. There's no way that they can get around that.

gruez 9y ago
>There's no way that they can get around that. unless you use high entropy aliases, there's nothing preventing someone from filtering out all the emails with "uncommon" domains for secondary examination. at that point, you can manually ascertain whether the email address is an alias or not. john@example.com probably a legit address bitcoin@example.com probably an alias at that point you can either not send to that email, or if you're extra evil, try to frame another company (try sending to amazon@example.com or ethereum@example.com). it's not even that hard to do because 99.9% of people don't use custom email domains.
- kalleboo 9y ago
  Email marketing is a numbers game, I doubt anyone is wasting time looking at individual addresses.
  - Zak 9y ago
    And even if a script could easily process addresses in an automated manner, it might be actively harmful to a marketer to do so. People who intentionally use disposable addresses are probably less likely to respond to email marketing and more likely to take actions against the marketer.
thefifthsetpin 9y ago
It's trivial to write that script, but not any more trivial than just generating lots of common_name@common_domain email addresses. Once you're willing to spam emails that didn't opt-in even to a list that you bought, you've entered into very shady territory.
amelius 9y ago
Email providers should make it easy to create a (temporary) alias. E.g.: x6ab2fe0e@example.com