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Yep. I know for a fact they do. Yahoo! Plus has a much better system where you use a different base email address plus the sub-address rather than your regular
by numbsafari 14y ago
Yep. I know for a fact they do.
Yahoo! Plus has a much better system where you use a different base email address plus the sub-address rather than your regular address.
For example, if my account is "somebody@gmail.com" then you use somebody+dropbox@gmail.com. But with yahoo, you pick an alternate, e.g. "huggybear", and use that instead (huggybear-dropbox@yahoo.com). That way if a spammer seems the sub-addressed account, they can't send email to huggybear@yahoo.com unless they want to end up on Yahoo's blacklist.
I've had a great deal more success with Yahoo's sub-addressing than Google's.
- Mahn 14y agoThat's perfect, I wish you could do something like this in gmail without specifically creating a new account for every alias.
- numbsafari 14y agoI should clarify: with Yahoo plus you only create one base for all your sub-addresses, not a new base for every sub-address. So in my earlier example, if you wanted to sub-address ebay, amazon and hackernews you'd have huggybear-ebay@, huggybear-amazon@ and huggybear-hn@. The big deal is that huggybear@ != someone@ and sending to huggybear@ won't reach someone@ and likely earns you a place on their blacklist (or some points towards ending up there).