At least it wouldn't hurt to always have some flowers around for the next Google project entering the Google Graveyard ;-) (I don't expect that Fuchsia would end there any time soon.)
It's been nearly 20 years since I added that feature. I assumed at the time everyone would do it when they saw how handy it is. For some reason that didn't happen...
If the website is breached, the login isn’t a login for any other website, and advertisers have a harder time correlating your identity, and if you get spam you know who is the culprit, and you can stop the spam by deleting the alias.
With this, no need for any other antispam logic. Back to the mid 90s (which is a good thing as far as email traffic is concerned!).
I always do this as well. I knew for months before they announced it that Dropbox had been breached. Yes, they waited so long to announce that the thieves had started using the emails for spam.
The majority of spam [that gets past various RBLs] that I receive is completely ignorant of the dash addressing that I use. It's exactly the same as plus addressing but with a dash instead of a plus.
Pharma spam, 419 scams, password leak crypto blackmail... remember that these miscreants rely on low costs to achieve their profits, so any sort of filtering is too expensive. They don't even filter out abuse@, postmaster@, hostmaster@, or mailer-daemon@.
I run a paid service called Kopi (https://kopi.cloud) that is meant to deal with exactly this issue.
You can use a shared domain:`hackernews@snorremd.kopi.cloud`
Or, after setting up an MX and a TXT DNS record, you can use your own domain: `hackernews@mail.snorremd.com`.
You can change the "real address" of any "forwarder" (`snorremd.kopi.cloud`/`mail.snorremd.com`) to relay to any address you want, whenever you want.
You can block individual addresses like `hackernews@mail.snorremd.com` with two clicks starting from your mail client.
You can also configure individual addresses to redirect to RSS so you can read newsletters or other "chatty" services as part of your normal browsing habits.
Panix.com has a similar feature. If you are dcoder@panix.com, you can use <anytag>@dcoder.users.panix.com, which avoids the problem of places that don't understand "+". I usually use companyname@dcoder.users.panix.com for each company I deal with. (Note, I am not actually "dcoder".)
It's a little longer to read over the phone, but I've never had trouble with it. And I've been able to tell a couple of companies that their email databases had been hacked or stolen.
In that instance you can. What is also nice though is if you have a custom domain, you can set the custom domain to do the same thing AND have an alias.
So for me, I have a few emails in my custom domain:
{firstname}@example.com
market@example.com
(there's others, but it's not relavent to this discussion).
market@example.com just goes straight to spam, as I don't use that email for anything. foo@market.example.com is used for each email instance. It works out extremely well.
I really wish FastMail would add an option to use a minus instead of a plus since most forms properly handle minuses, but many do not properly handle pluses.
It is possible to embed posts from public channels in web pages. In fact, if your group is public, you can even embed conversations in your web page. Try the announcement link here https://t.me/telegram/83
Wire (wire.com) is now fully open sourced. You can build your own client from https://github.com/wireapp and use it to talk to other user using the official clients.
