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Re:Minimal PDF by oneeyedpigeon on Sunday July 09, 2017 @06:33AM (#14729145)
Couldn't you do something like:

1. Register [email protected] 2. Give out your email address to friends and family as [email protected] 3. Give out your email address to services as foo+{service name}@gmail.com 4. Reject anything coming directly to [email protected]

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Re:Minimal PDF by logicallee on Sunday July 09, 2017 @06:38AM (#14729158)
That is a different kind of obscurity, as if that were my protocol a spammer could make up a keyword and it would be delivered until I realized that it wasn't myself who made it up.

Maybe there is a way to whitelist keywords and only deliver tags I add one at a time via filters, but it is not the usual interface.

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Re:Minimal PDF by desdiv on Sunday July 09, 2017 @09:39AM (#14729676)
Many spammers have caught onto the foo+bar trick. When they detect such an address they will spam both [email protected] and [email protected].
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Re:Minimal PDF by kgwgk on Sunday July 09, 2017 @10:33AM (#14729896)
Read his message carefully. They don't know about [email protected]
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