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are you aware that comments are a thing in email addresses ? john.smith(comment)@example.com there are also tags john.smith+sometag@example.com neither of t
by masukomi 3y ago
are you aware that comments are a thing in email addresses ?
john.smith(comment)@example.com
there are also tags
john.smith+sometag@example.com
neither of these require any DNS or server muckery and _should_ be supported by major mail hosts.
Of course, who knows how many random half-assed email validation things people have in their forms that'll prevent you from entering them.
- kaetemi 3y agoAnd spammers will happily remove those bits from the address.
- not2b 3y agoYes, but many email marketers know this trick and they just strip out the comment or tag, or else make you give them an address that doesn't have it.
- foresto 3y agoEven worse: Some of them happily accept such addresses, but some time later, silently drop messages to you while claiming that they were sent.
- afiori 3y agoThe obvious solution would be to use john.smith+me@example.com and treat john.smith@example.com as a semi-spam folder
- kevincox 3y agoYup, since I'm using my own domain domain I use kevincox@ for public sharing and generated emails for sharing with companies. Therefore there is no obvious path from the email I give them (which bypasses the spam filter and can be revoked) to my general email address. Although it is easy to find my general address online it is fairly heavily spam-filtered. And unknown address is subject to an very harsh filter if it wants to end up in my inbox. So basically there are three tiers: - Single relationship emails. Guaranteed delivery until revoked. - General inbox. - Unknown to addresses, unlikely to hit the inbox. (The address are actually signed and blacklisted rather than generated+revoked but that is just an implementation detail)
- lilyball 3y agoComments aren't semantically meaningful, anyone can strip them out without changing the meaning of the email address.