say hello to spam
friendly email addresses for bots
I thought it would be fun to share a special public email address to feed hungry bots:
Anything sent there gets instantly reported as spam. To do this in Fastmail, you first make an alias, then a rule:
It only took a few clicks to create. Maybe if enough people did this, email spammers might flag themselves out of existence?
I imagine it might be better to:
- put it in source code or somewhere no human would look for contact information
- use your own domain, as plus addressing like
+helloreveals your main address - sound plausible (like dictionary words) and not random letters/numbers
Try to get creative so that it's hard to pattern match. Here's another one:
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