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If you run your own email, you can catch the moderately motivated spammer: use a character other than + as the segmenter, and a honeypot +. <me+some-thing@ex
by kps 7y ago
If you run your own email, you can catch the moderately motivated spammer: use a character other than + as the segmenter, and a honeypot +.
<me+some-thing@example.com>
<me+some-other@example.com>
Here, ‘-’ is the segment character, <me+some@example.com> is the actual delivery address, and <me@example.com> triggers an immediate block.
- mehrdadn 7y ago> <me@example.com> triggers an immediate block. This doesn't work. I've seen legitimate companies just strip everything from the + onwards.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoWell, "legitimate". There's no legitimate reason for a company to remove anything from user-provided e-mail address.
- mehrdadn 7y agoLegitimate reason != legitimate company
- TeMPOraL 7y agoDoing something like this is extra work, implying the company in question has either some malicious intent (e.g. spamming, or sharing data with third parties behind users' backs), misguided (e.g. thinking this is a proper way of dealing with user account spam), or just don't give a damn. Either one of these cases reflects badly on such company.
- mehrdadn 7y agoYou can reflect it however badly you want, I'm just saying these weren't companies most people would consider shady or cutoff business with over this issue.