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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by siimtalvik on Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:51PM (#16783927)
One of the two reasons i changed my recipient_delimiter parameter to '.'

The other would be that spammers know that anything after a + is usually optional and strip it. Can't do that when the delimiter is a '.'

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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by wyclif on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:43PM (#16784093)
I do the same thing, for the same reason. I haven't A/B tested both options or anything, but I know I've gotten spam where they stripped the "+" parameter.
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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by __david__ on Sunday April 08, 2018 @12:43AM (#16784650)
I also did that, but I made '_' work, too. Part of me wants to add 'x' as an alternative just for further obfuscation.
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