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Originally Posted by id10t
Clicking the link only lets them know your address is real and actually looked at. Makes it more valuable next time they sell it.
What I do is run my own mail but many other providers support this to some degree or another. Anyway, I use "address extensions" (RFC5233) and so every company I do business with gets their own unique email. IE id10t+pelicanparts@mydomain
GMail supports this BUT messages only go to "all mail" - not your inbox.
Another gmail trick is that they ignore . in addresses, so some.user@gmail is the same as so.me.us.er@gmail - you can maybe play with that one.
One thing to be aware of with the + extension thing is that some dumb front end designers don't know RFC822 and what really make a potentially valid email address and so there are lots of broken validators out there... so I use a - instead of a + on my domain's config.
When I start getting spam (my local tax collector and florida fish/game licenses are the top guilty ones) I can start having fun l like sending rejects, or my personal favorite is to look up the CEO etc. of the guilty company that sold my info or got hacked and redirect all the email to them.
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I'm glad you posted this. I often contemplated doing the same as I was really curious which addresses would make it out into the wild. Note that it can easily be some unscrupulous employee, not necessarily the CEO selling them. The CEO might be interested in preventing it, if you contacted him and let him know. A data theft may be easily proven if an employee moved or works in two places, and your email moves with them.
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