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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:

sayhi@rosano.ca

Anything sent there gets instantly reported as spam. To do this in Fastmail, you first make an alias, then a rule:

filtering rule to send incoming mail to spam

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:

Try to get creative so that it's hard to pattern match. Here's another one:

eatme@rosano.ca

"eat me" scene from Men in Black

from Berlin / Germany
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