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You can do this with a gmail account too. If your email address is johnsmith@gmail.com...the following addresses all fwd to your main address John.smith@gmail.

• ALittleLight 8y ago
  Can't the spammer just s/'\+.*@'/'@'/ or something and throw away the + sign and all that follows? Or the company could do this if they were selling your email address.
• brocket 8y ago
  I used to use this technique for many years, but occasionally ran into issues with form validators rejecting the email address. I finally stopped because I never got spam from those email addresses (even in spam folder). I figured it's trivial for spammers to strip out the extra text, any half-decent spammer should know this trick. Also, I suspected they might change the +text to put the blame on someone else.
• tedunangst 8y ago
  While we're on the subject, all combinations of dots are equivalent. this.isme and th.isisme and thisis.me, etc. Finite variety, but good enough for a few generic throwaways and never filtered or stripped that I've seen.
• ahje 8y ago
  I use domain.tld@subdomain.domain.tld combined with a catch-all address for that sub-domain. It gets around various email validation regexes that won't accept +.