I got my first $50/mo customer

Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by NotSammyHagar on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:33PM (#23096571)

My list of list of list inclusion trumps your second order list. I use my work emails sometimes for conference registrations, those always get burned and I get spam mail immediately. Conf registrations are the worst.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by kugelblitz on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:07PM (#23096909)

I use my own domain and have a catch-all. I usually enter the domain name as the identifier. I.e. here it would be [email protected]

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by NotSammyHagar on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:22PM (#23097068)

I sometimes do the same. It's weird to me that some places immediately sell your email and other orgs do not. Like a graph database conference seemed to lead to a lot of new spam.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by Bnshsysjab on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:41PM (#23097258)

It’s not some conference, it’s some asshole who has the ability to implement that kind of behaviour. I bet loads of people working at that graph conference didn’t agree but either didn’t know or didn’t have a say in the activity.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by thisisbrians on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:48PM (#23096712)

If you use Google Mail (and the email field in the form lets you) you can do <youremail>+<whatever tag you want>@gmail.com to track stuff like this.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by jfkebwjsbx on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:57PM (#23096807)

It works for common spam, but it does not really work for curated lists because they can remove it.

(I think it is also an RFC standard, not just gmail, but don't quote me on this).

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by kcolford on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:52PM (#23097356)

Not an RFC standard but it is a "de facto" standard. Everyone implements it, the config line for it is just commented out on postfix, super easy to use.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by Spooky23 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:54PM (#23096789)

Spammers aren't dumb -- this gets stripped.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by NullPrefix on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:07PM (#23096906)

Next logical step would be having <youremail>+<secretKey>@gmail.com as the real email and <justyouremail>@gmail.com as spam box.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by sneak on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:51PM (#23097350)

https://anonaddy.me

I use this service a lot.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by drdeadringer on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @07:36PM (#23097767)

Clearly you like them because you use them a lot.

Anything about them you mislike?

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by NotSammyHagar on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:23PM (#23097077)

That is a great idea. I really want my email hosted some place and that I could write my own "post arrival" simple business logic.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by vageli on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:35PM (#23097200)

> That is a great idea. I really want my email hosted some place and that I could write my own "post arrival" simple business logic.

You can do this in gmail with filters, unless I'm missing something about the use case.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by dorgo on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:13AM (#23100859)

Maybe it's too early, but I don't get it. If the spammer doesn't strip "+<secretKey>" then you get spam in your real inbox. Btw, what is so secret about the secretKey if you post it on the internet?

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by NullPrefix on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:07PM (#23105361)

You give different secretKey to each recipient. This way you know who leaked your email.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by Bnshsysjab on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:42PM (#23097269)

I’m pretty sure you can insert or strip periods ‘.’ in gmails too

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by searchableguy on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:05PM (#23096887)

Use temporary email alias? That's what I have been doing.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by AxiomaticSpace on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @09:15PM (#23098550)

I actually think this is a decent idea, so made a quick little landing page to gauge if people are interested. http://unsolicit.me

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by simonebrunozzi on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:08AM (#23099626)

Even better. Give me a quick one-button "here's a lawsuit against you" as a response for my email being in that list. I'd gladly pay hundreds of dollars to 1) remove the pain and 2) punish a business like this.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by bmiller2 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:24PM (#23099007)

Interested, but your price point is way to high. It’s also pretty easy for me to go to each vendor you mention on the landing page and fill out the opt out request form they are mandated to provide.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by MattGaiser on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:42PM (#23099110)

It is too high if you are paying for it personally. As a company benefit for top execs and managers? $25 isn't so bad given that the alternative solution is an executive assistant.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by dorgo on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:20AM (#23100894)

Is there a service to make quick little landing pages to gauge if people are interested?

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by MattGaiser on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:18PM (#23098973)

I can't access the Google form.

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by AxiomaticSpace on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:46PM (#23099143)

Sorry about that, it should be fixed now

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Re:I got my first $50/mo customer by thisisbrians on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:31PM (#23096557)

Yo, I would pay for that.

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