Re:The World's Longest Alphabetical Email Address (2004)
by ValentineC on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:07PM
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> The sub-domain is essential for catch-all, otherwise you get a crazy amount of spam.
Seconding this. I get a larger portion of targeted spam (addresses that I gave out in the past) with a sub-domain catch-all. At a normal second-level domain catch-all, I get more random spam addressed to common addresses like accounts@, billing@, and sales@.
1. Use a catch all alias (zero-effort)
2. Just use the domain or in some cases company name
3. Use a sub-domain
The sub-domain is essential for catch-all, otherwise you get a crazy amount of spam. I forward it all to a single Gmail address, have a rule to move it to a specific folder (based on "to" address), and otherwise let Gmail spam filtering do it's thing.
I've been doing this since early 2000's, and had very few issues with using domain/company. One or two that dis-allowed it, a couple confused humans.