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I do - my personal email (I have my own domain) is only given out to personal friends and with the explicit instruction that they better not use it to sign up t
by tobtoh 15y ago
I do - my personal email (I have my own domain) is only given out to personal friends and with the explicit instruction that they better not use it to sign up to competitions or 'tell a friend / share the reward' forms. Some still do of course, but at least gmail's spam filter filters out most of the junk.
For any 'commercial' site or correspondence, I create a unique alias. Well 'create' is too formal, I simply have a catch-all address so I can create 'aliases' on the spur of the moment. I rely on gmail's spam filter to filter out the rubbish and if a particular alias becomes 'compromised', I can create a custom rule that deletes email received at that particular alias.
- dazzla 15y agoI do the same. zoneedit.com is a free and very easy way to do this. Register a domain and use zonedit for DNS and email forwarding/filtering.
- underwater 15y agoSpam Gourmet is good for the second case. blah.myname@spamgourmet.com gets forwarded to my real email. I can configure a maximum number of emails that will work before the alias stops functioning. The only drawback is the domain is not great for dictating over the phone or in person.