Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addresses?

Re:Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addres... by bri3d on Sunday September 30, 2012 @10:50PM (#4595089)

I had the same opinion of your parent poster, so I tried my unobfuscated mail, and now I've got the same issue as you.

While I've trained Gmail to mark delivery status notifications as spam automatically, it's frustrating to go from maybe 5-10 real, actual emails a day and no spam at all to over ten thousand delivery status notifications a week (spammers have started using thousands of 8-character hex@domain combination addresses, and everything from my domain directs to me to catch real people I meet making typos).

I also sometimes worry that I may have to deal with some form of poorly-orchestrated vigilante retribution and/or potential blacklisting even though it's clear that the mail is not actually coming from me.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addres... by sejje on Sunday October 07, 2012 @05:16AM (#4622948)

I had someone forge my AOL email address into the headers somewhere around 1999 and send out lots of spam.

A "vigilante" confronted me on AIM, we chatted about it, and he's now one of my best friends.

Not that you want it happening, just an anecdote.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addres... by sbierwagen on Sunday September 30, 2012 @11:01PM (#4595112)

As your thread-sibling notes, Sender Policy Framework solves this by using DNS records to state which mail servers are permitted to send mail from your domain.

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