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Amen! Anyone else here use myemail+token@gmail.com when they have to register with their email to find out who is selling them out and to make spam filters easi
by twistedpair 13y ago
Amen! Anyone else here use myemail+token@gmail.com when they have to register with their email to find out who is selling them out and to make spam filters easier?
It still amazes me that 70% of the places I attempt using foo+bar@gmail.com call it invalid. And that does not even begin to touch the myriad valid permutations that are "invalid" out there.
- scoot 13y agoI use 33mail.com for the same purpose - it gives you a unique wildcard subdomain (and also a shortened domain (<yoursub>.33m.co) so you can create uinque addresses per signup etc, without the problems of + being rejected (or gicing away your real email address) You can then block any address with a click if it's being abused. If you're feeling generous, enough people using this link will earn me premium features: http://www.33mail.com/rj37w3 http://www.33mail.com/rj37w3
- ben0x539 13y agoMaybe they're on to you and only pretend that they think it's invalid so you'll give them a slightly-less-throwaway address ;)
- FireBeyond 13y agoAnd likewise, it amazes me that people think that for all their efforts at combating filters, captchas and the like, that the most nefarious of spammers aren't stripping off "+token"s from email addresses.
- kstrauser 13y agoSpammers tend to be stupid. When I post my email address as "me+tag@mydomain.com" on a certain popular, well-scraped website, I see lots of rejected traffic to "tag@mydomain.com".
- mikeash 13y agoI used to use mail@mikeash.com as my primary e-mail address. Enough sites rejected that (due to thinking that "mail" was bogus somehow) that I eventually switched to mike@mikeash.com.