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lightandlightlast Friday at 7:53 PM1 replyview on HN

I often go one step futher by appending a short random identifier, `{service}.{id}@{domain}`, to make it harder to guess (in case someone learned of my email address policy).

I created a little GTK program to help: https://github.com/LightAndLight/gen-alias


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layer8last Friday at 8:06 PM

Yes, it’s really <f(service, rand())>.