alt Hacker NewsI'm interested. How does it differ from using:
[email protected] or [email protected]
...to figure out where the spam originated?
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loloquwowndueo • yesterday at 11:07 PM
Everybody knows name+something@ maps to name@ so it’s trivial for bad actors to strip the plus part and just spam you directly, losing the per-correspondent distinction.
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sans_souse • today at 1:20 AM
In the latter specifically it doesn't differ except for the specific methodology and what we do with the results.
> [email protected]
Just be aware that this may be very confusing to customer support agents: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32475178