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I've been using this technique for 10+ years. Sadly it doesn't work with Gravatar because md5("comment+sitename1@mydomain.com") != md5("comment+sitename2@my
by dotBen 16y ago
I've been using this technique for 10+ years. Sadly it doesn't work with Gravatar because
md5("comment+sitename1@mydomain.com") != md5("comment+sitename2@mydomain.com")
However, it is really interesting to see the amount of spam I get sent to certain 'snowflake' email addresses I have only ever used to submit a comment to top well known blogs. Shows how much database hacking for email harvest goes on.
- tomjen3 16y agoI ended up using that very same technique and ran into the exact same problem. My solution to this has been to sign up for one gravatar, but after that I simply stopped caring about the service. If whatever service I am using can't work without gravatar, they will have to see a generic picture.