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Re:Coinbase user emails and full names leaked by crazcarl on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @11:56AM (#7509219)
Does this actually prevent true spammers, or only emails you consider spam, but the sender thinks is worthwhile?

Otherwise, as a 'true' spammer, why wouldn't you just always strip off everything after the plus when adding the email to your distribution list?

Re:Coinbase user emails and full names leaked by wpietri on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @02:03PM (#7510347)
Depends on how smart the spammer is, and how much they care. Most spammers a) are not very bright, and b) are in a volume business. Even the ones smart enough to do this may not think it worth the time to possibly improve a tiny percentage of harvested addresses. Especially since those of us who are dedicated enough to maintain tagged addresses are unlikely to respond positively to spam no matter what address we receive it on.
Re:Coinbase user emails and full names leaked by claudius on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @12:41PM (#7509590)
I use _, not "+" and anybody else might use "." or "-" depending on the configuration of their mail server. Sure, you can always add the full email and every possible stripped email to your lists, but in practice, few people seem to do that (judging by the amount of spam I get to [email protected] as compared to [email protected]).
Re:Coinbase user emails and full names leaked by SomeCallMeTim on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @12:56PM (#7509725)
I use "-" with an alias to "_". It turns out that when you give an email address to random people, they sometimes don't know the difference between "dash" or "hyphen" and an underscore.