Re:Using a catch-all domain is a mistake
by bambax on Thursday June 02, 2022 @02:53AM
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I too have been using a catchall email address since some time in the last century, and it's been cool, although the post is right when they say
> The truth is no one really sells your email
The reason I started doing this was to monitor if someone would transfer my address, and it's never happened. You also get more spam because every firstname@yourdomain works.
But the weird interactions are good! Last year I wanted to get my kid in a somewhat selective middle school (in France) and the fact that the email I was registered with was name_of_school@mydomain helped, because the principal was convinced I was and always had been a huge fan of the school, to have my email named after them...
People simply don't understand you can have more than one email address -- let alone a million. That's kind of fun.
> The truth is no one really sells your email
The reason I started doing this was to monitor if someone would transfer my address, and it's never happened. You also get more spam because every firstname@yourdomain works.
But the weird interactions are good! Last year I wanted to get my kid in a somewhat selective middle school (in France) and the fact that the email I was registered with was name_of_school@mydomain helped, because the principal was convinced I was and always had been a huge fan of the school, to have my email named after them...
People simply don't understand you can have more than one email address -- let alone a million. That's kind of fun.