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Given that everyone knows about this feature, what's to stop spammers just stripping of the '+' portion?


Simple solution: give everyone address with "+suffix", and mark as junk any mail without it.

For stubborn services who don't accept "+" in email addresses use unique redirect aliases.

(Also, IIRC, Gmail ignores dots, i.e. "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" is the same address. Chose a canonical one with a dot somewhere, and filter the rest with exception for legimate senders.)


you can get the same effect with arbitrary dots.

e.g. [email protected] is the same as [email protected]


Still, they can remove all dots from gmail addresses.


You can hide the + portion of a Gmail address behind redirects and forwards, if you feel so inclined. It's a lot of work, but it does let you use the "deliveredto" operator in Gmail to automatically sort and discard spam like that.




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