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Re:My Email Canary by jawns on Thursday June 09, 2011 @09:09AM (#2636980)
I do something similar. If I sign up at Slashdot, I'll use the email address [email protected], and if I sign up at Gawker, I'll use [email protected]. Those emails get forwarded to my real email account.

Nice thing about this system is that I can immediately tell where spammers got my email address and shut it off. Also, any email that comes in that doesn't contain a SECRETKEY gets ignored, so I don't have to worry about spammers sending to [email protected] and [email protected].

Re:My Email Canary by dtalen on Thursday June 09, 2011 @01:10PM (#2637847)
That's interesting to me. What service do you use that lets you quickly generate new addresses? Or are you running your own server?
Re:My Email Canary by fmx on Friday June 10, 2011 @05:43AM (#2640275)
I also use a separate email alias for each company I deal with. I run my own Postfix servers (primary + backup), but I've now created a web UI with a view to making this usable by others. The URL is in my profile (not sure if posting it here would be considered spam). It's still early days, but seems to work fine for my own emails. If you'd like to use it I'll be happy to create a (free) account for you.