Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one

Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by FemmeAndroid on Friday December 24, 2021 @05:24PM (#29678350)

It's funny to hear this experience. I've been doing this consistently for about 5 years now and have noticed 2 instances where this occurred, and in both there were prior disclosures about a security failure.

I tend to sign up for a lot of things (I'm seeing over 150 unique email addresses I receive emails from using this scheme), but I guess I'm just getting lucky.

Also, just out of curiosity, where does one sell email addresses, and how much are they worth? I take signups on a few websites, and I'd never sell my users' email, but I'm just curious to learn more.

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by lwn on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:12PM (#29678692)

I used to trade e-mail addresses with various banks, some 15 years ago. I'd just call up their marketing departments and offer those as 'financial leads'. I had a network of people who had various ad campaigns running where a customer could win something if the'd leave their personal (financial) data.

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by kbenson on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:21PM (#29678752)

I did it in the early 2000s with a domain I picked up just for that purpose, which I'm almost positive was "myspamstopper.com", but I let the registration lapse and it was snapped up. It's amazing what was still available back then to easily register.

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Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic... by layer8 on Friday December 24, 2021 @08:59PM (#29679623)

Not the GP, but I’m experiencing this mostly with small to mid-sized online retailers.

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