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I’ve actually struck up a number of interesting conversations with my wildcard email pattern where I give e.g. a retailer something like “walmart@<my-domain.com

I’ve actually struck up a number of interesting conversations with my wildcard email pattern where I give e.g. a retailer something like “walmart@<my-domain.com>”. Lots of people are confused at first but generally end up getting it and thinking it’s a good idea. I actually went to an orthodontist once and when filling out the form online the day before I use the Dr’s last name tor the local part. The next day when I went in for the appointment two different people separately made a point to ask me about it and how they could do something similar. It was far more interesting than the discussions about my damn jaw alignment (:

ClearAndPresent 5y ago
I've had similar conversations, but they are eclipsed by those revolving around people asking me if I work for the company in question. (I once said yes, to see what would happen, and understood how easy it would be to swindle people who don't understand email.) I also spent 10 minutes trying to convince a car hire company that the email was mine and didn't belong to a third party car hire intermediary.
- cdubzzz 5y ago
  Haha yeah I do expect I’ll eventually run into confusion. For the most part I’m rarely giving anyone an email address in person or over the phone anyway. I live on a street with a long, somewhat weird name that sounds like one word if you say it too fast but is actually three words. It’s much more of annoyance than my email addresses hah.
c22 5y ago
I used to do this (now I use less guessable keys) and recall having many similar conversations. Occasionally I would run into someone who refused to believe the address was "real" but then when I gave them some other arbitrary string at the same domain they suddenly accepted it. I've also encountered websites which refused to let me sign up with their company's name anywhere in the email string and one particularly hilarious example where the site accidentally gave me access to things I wasn't supposed to have access to just because I'd used site.com@mydomain.com to sign up.

ClearAndPresent 5y ago

I've had similar conversations, but they are eclipsed by those revolving around people asking me if I work for the company in question. (I once said yes, to see what would happen, and understood how easy it would be to swindle people who don't understand email.) I also spent 10 minutes trying to convince a car hire company that the email was mine and didn't belong to a third party car hire intermediary.

cdubzzz 5y ago
Haha yeah I do expect I’ll eventually run into confusion. For the most part I’m rarely giving anyone an email address in person or over the phone anyway. I live on a street with a long, somewhat weird name that sounds like one word if you say it too fast but is actually three words. It’s much more of annoyance than my email addresses hah.

c22 5y ago

I used to do this (now I use less guessable keys) and recall having many similar conversations. Occasionally I would run into someone who refused to believe the address was "real" but then when I gave them some other arbitrary string at the same domain they suddenly accepted it. I've also encountered websites which refused to let me sign up with their company's name anywhere in the email string and one particularly hilarious example where the site accidentally gave me access to things I wasn't supposed to have access to just because I'd used site.com@mydomain.com to sign up.