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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by walden42 on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @06:53PM (#6851502)
The only problem I've found with this method is the spammers that try to guess your email, so they end up sending emails to "[email protected]", "[email protected]", etc. The catch-all forwards them all to me.

The only way around this, I think, is to only have uncommon emails, like instead of [email protected], use [email protected]. Put a block on the common ones and you're good to go.

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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by darkarmani on Thursday December 05, 2013 @01:55PM (#6856327)
It's not that spammers try to guess your email, but that if you accept any email address as valid they'll notice that you are accepting delivery.

Once i figured this out i just created wildcard aliases that end with a static prefix: [email protected], [email protected], etc. This cuts down on 99% of the random spam.

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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by octo_t on Thursday December 05, 2013 @08:44AM (#6854312)
regrettably this is against RFC 2142[1], which states that you need to leave certain mailboxes open (such as abuse@domain, webmaster@domain etc)

[1] - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt

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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by cleaver on Thursday December 05, 2013 @03:00PM (#6856771)
Quite ironic, isn't it, how "[email protected]" is a conduit for abuse?

Spammers effectively killed that RFC.

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