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In response to "They also ignore + and anything after it so if you want to make "unique" email addresses to see who is selling your contact info, you can do " by oblique

I did this for my badge at ReInvent, which all the vendors scanned using RFID - giving them my email address.

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Dec 10 '18, 09:23

Then I set up a filter in Gmail to apply a "Reinvent Spam" label to any email they sent me at that address.

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It works really well also for "fooling" hackers because it is typically unique for the place you give your email to but if someone thinks your -- (edited) - oblique Dec 10, 09:25 1
- This is not what I was expecting and is a valuable tip, thanks. -- nm - zork Dec 10, 09:27

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