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Re:Show HN: Kopi – safeguard your email address and help man... by davchana on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:35PM (#19140266)
So it's kind of similar functionality Gmail provides with + address. Your hn-clusmore@kopi is Gmail's clusmore+hn@gmail

If/when kopi becomes popular, what stops from websites just removing anything before - before saving clusmore@kopi & thus identifying, similar to what they do with Gmail plus addresses. hn-clusmore@kopi becomes clusmore@kopi. Signing up for new keyword is not like signing up for a new GMail address? Thanks

Re:Show HN: Kopi – safeguard your email address and help man... by Shorn on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:45PM (#19140560)
Yes, similar to the gmail + address.

If Kopi became popular enough that people found it worth doing this - I think it would be relatively easy to come up with many different approaches to prevent / mitigate this sort of thing. Different separators, passcode separators/prefixes, machine-learning based on the from / to pairings, ... all the way up to white-listing (blech). As a paid service whose continued existence depends on the customer's satisfaction - it'd be easy to justify doing any or all of those things.