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Spammers know to just cut out the +whatever. It's a simple regex to keep those from even getting into a database.
by autoexec 4mo ago
Spammers know to just cut out the +whatever. It's a simple regex to keep those from even getting into a database.
- janc_ 4mo agoThe + has no special meaning in the standards, and thus removing it will just result in invalid addresses in many cases…
- AlexandrB 4mo agoDoesn't matter. Most email services[1] use it the way Gmail does and spam is a numbers game. Losing a few valid addresses is worth correlating all those other addresses for most spammers. Standards only matter to nerds like us. [1] https://proton.me/blog/what-is-email-alias#5 https://proton.me/blog/what-is-email-alias#5
- Ferret7446 4mo agoExcept plus address users are also less likely to be receptive to spam, so it's probably better to just not bother
- inigyou 4mo agoSpam has never been about how "receptive" the recipient is.
- inigyou 4mo agoThey can check if it's Gmail though.