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I wonder how long until these spammy sites get wise to this (or how many already have) and start stripping off the tag portion of the address.
by tempestn 12y ago
I wonder how long until these spammy sites get wise to this (or how many already have) and start stripping off the tag portion of the address.
- jawns 12y agoAssuming you run your own mail server, you don't necessarily have to use the +tag. You could use any schema you want. For instance, you might give out the address me.1408@yourdomain.com, which automatically expires in August 2014 (after which any mail sent to that address gets nuked).
- tempestn 12y agoYa, I remember an amusing story from someone who would register to stores with <storename>@<hisdomain>.com. Then he got a C&D letter from one of the stores demanding that he stop using their trademark in his email address.
- wpietri 12y agoI've been doing this a long time, and I haven't caught anybody doing that yet. Generally spammers are a) not so smart, and b) all about volume. The delimiter character on one system is a legitimate component on another, so stripping like that will fix some addresses but break others. Could they increase their total address count by 0.2% trying to strip tags? Possibly. Is it worth the effort? I doubt it. People who tag addresses are also the most likely to report spam and raise a ruckus.
- tempestn 12y agoGood points, especially that last one. There's probably zero (or negative) benefit for them ending up in the inbox of anyone who would filter with tags.