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Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by pil0u on Friday November 07, 2025 @03:08AM (#45844465)
With Gmail, also note that [email protected] is equivalent to [email protected] or [email protected]

As some other comment suggested, these rules are easy to tackle by motivated spammers.

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Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by askl on Friday November 07, 2025 @07:37AM (#45845762)
If they were motivated, they wouldn't have to work as spammers.
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Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by docmars on Friday November 07, 2025 @09:05AM (#45846512)
I see what ya did there, you get an upvote.
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Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by esseph on Friday November 07, 2025 @10:40AM (#45847525)
Some spammers make obscene amounts of money. CEO of Fortune 100 money.
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Re:Two billion email addresses were exposed by chipsrafferty on Friday November 07, 2025 @06:07PM (#45852354)
10% of all of Meta's income is from scammers.
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