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I’m just wondering if it can parse things like « pls-no-spam at google’s email service », which a human can easily parse to pls-no-spam@gmail.com. I suppose POS

I’m just wondering if it can parse things like « pls-no-spam at google’s email service », which a human can easily parse to pls-no-spam@gmail.com. I suppose POS tagging with some heuristics can get it working for a few cases. And if it can, I feel the most users for this would be email harvesting spam bots. Which would not be super nice. Although in ideal and less common scenarios it could actually be useful for IR purposes.

OJFord 7y ago
Sanitising user input seems a good use-case too - I'd like it built in to my email client, for example. (More likely to be useful than Outlook's typically wildly incorrect guesses at when someone's suggesting a meeting/calendar event!)
albertgoeswoof 7y ago
Not sure why people bother to use the << spam at google's email >> approach when they can use an email forwarding service that lets you turn email addresses off, like https://idbloc.co https://idbloc.co (disclaimer, I built this)
- sametmax 7y ago
  Because I don't want to shutdown the address later: people may try to use it to reach me. I use anti spam addresses to register to new services.
- perseaalexandra 7y ago
  Not sure why people bother using idbloc.co instead of burnermail.io
- omegabravo 7y ago
  I think these are a great idea. The reason that people use that method is because it is free, and the suggested alternative costs money. I typically use throw away email addresses instead since they're free. If I actually want to use the service/account some day I'll sign up properly. I expect someday the primary email providers will generate aliases on demand.
  - giancarlostoro 7y ago
    > I typically use throw away email addresses instead since they're free. If I actually want to use the service/account some day I'll sign up properly. The example above is about giving a direct line to be contacted through email on a personal site or blog, heck even a professional one. > I expect someday the primary email providers will generate aliases on demand. I know at least ProtonMail does it. But also theres the email#tag@gmail.com trick that works nicely enough.
  - myu701 7y ago
    Fastmail lets you convert myusername@fastmail.com to whateverwebsiteorservice@myusername.fastmail.com It's not a literal alias, but it works out fine. One of these days I'm going to propose the Thunderbird + K-9 mail addons that say 'set the sent from email address to be equal to the sent to email address', that way if service@myusername.fastmail.com is the recipient, it will be the sender to any replies, rather than the MUA default replying with myusername@fastmail.com (but that's a separate discussion)
    - asdkhadsj 7y ago
      I didn't know that was possible, really neat!
- prashnts 7y ago
  That example is quite common within academic context: most of the researchers and professors I know, who have a university homepage, use this. I guess its because they do want legitimate people to reach them easily (students, collaborators etc) and if spams do go through — well they'd probably ignore it, just like they ignore other emails.

OJFord 7y ago

Sanitising user input seems a good use-case too - I'd like it built in to my email client, for example. (More likely to be useful than Outlook's typically wildly incorrect guesses at when someone's suggesting a meeting/calendar event!)

albertgoeswoof 7y ago

Not sure why people bother to use the << spam at google's email >> approach when they can use an email forwarding service that lets you turn email addresses off, like https://idbloc.co https://idbloc.co (disclaimer, I built this)

sametmax 7y ago
Because I don't want to shutdown the address later: people may try to use it to reach me. I use anti spam addresses to register to new services.
perseaalexandra 7y ago
Not sure why people bother using idbloc.co instead of burnermail.io
omegabravo 7y ago
I think these are a great idea. The reason that people use that method is because it is free, and the suggested alternative costs money. I typically use throw away email addresses instead since they're free. If I actually want to use the service/account some day I'll sign up properly. I expect someday the primary email providers will generate aliases on demand.
- giancarlostoro 7y ago
  > I typically use throw away email addresses instead since they're free. If I actually want to use the service/account some day I'll sign up properly. The example above is about giving a direct line to be contacted through email on a personal site or blog, heck even a professional one. > I expect someday the primary email providers will generate aliases on demand. I know at least ProtonMail does it. But also theres the email#tag@gmail.com trick that works nicely enough.
- myu701 7y ago
  Fastmail lets you convert myusername@fastmail.com to whateverwebsiteorservice@myusername.fastmail.com It's not a literal alias, but it works out fine. One of these days I'm going to propose the Thunderbird + K-9 mail addons that say 'set the sent from email address to be equal to the sent to email address', that way if service@myusername.fastmail.com is the recipient, it will be the sender to any replies, rather than the MUA default replying with myusername@fastmail.com (but that's a separate discussion)
  - asdkhadsj 7y ago
    I didn't know that was possible, really neat!
prashnts 7y ago
That example is quite common within academic context: most of the researchers and professors I know, who have a university homepage, use this. I guess its because they do want legitimate people to reach them easily (students, collaborators etc) and if spams do go through — well they'd probably ignore it, just like they ignore other emails.