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Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by ixwt »

floatingatoll wrote: post #28
williamdclt wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not as useful as `firstnamelastname+twitter@gmail.com` for example :/

Not as readable, but each inter-character spot is a bit, and if you have 11 bits, you can represent 2^11 addresses. EDIT: Assumes Zero or One periods per bit-gap; if you can chain them, the sky’s the limit.

I just tested it with a bunch of periods. I got rejected with just two periods adjacent, and with quite a few more periods adjacent. So only bits. Looks like it can be used for filtering too.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by ixwt »

ReadyPlayerNone wrote: post #13
bobjordan wrote: post #6

Thanks, just spent five minutes modding my webapp to disallow email aliases.

I'd reconsider this change. Lots of people use email aliases to track which sites share their contact details with third parties. I see it all the time in signups for one of my sites - don't mind, of course, because I don't share their data. If you stop people doing this it might send the wrong message.

This is a poor way to track who is selling your contact details. It's trivial to strip + aliases from a list.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by dimensi0nal »

ixwt wrote: post #51
floatingatoll wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not as readable, but each inter-character spot is a bit, and if you have 11 bits, you can represent 2^11 addresses. EDIT: Assumes Zero or One periods per bit-gap; if you can chain them, the sky’s the limit.

I just tested it with a bunch of periods. I got rejected with just two periods adjacent, and with quite a few more periods adjacent. So only bits. Looks like it can be used for filtering too.

Dots cannot appear consecutively in the local-part unless quoted.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by cenal »

close04 wrote: post #42
bionoid wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last I checked it appeared like Mailinator's POP3 support was completely removed, and API access requires a subscription. It was priced way above what I was willing to pay (I think $150/mo)

Also Mailinator is banned by multiple sites and I feel like that number is increasing (anecdata). Which means it's getting less and less useful for the purpose of "burner" email addresses.

You can point your own domain to mailinator mx records for free.

Don’t have a domain to throw spam at? Pick a sub domain and use that.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

#57

Post by 2019ideas »

nine_k wrote: post #23

This is delightfully crazy. Give some random guys with no website your registration record somewhere, allow them to verify your registration as theirs, and then impersonate you, reset passwords, see any communications, possibly log in as yourself and do anything. All this with no recourse. Nigerian spammers moan from envy for such a brilliant self-propelled gullibility filter.

If you are worried about your user details getting stolen after signing up with someone else's email-

You aren't using this service correctly.

The idea is to not give away your email or signup for a website, but get access to that website.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

#59

Post by codetrotter »

gpm wrote: post #49
jopsen wrote: post #41

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wow, sites like neopets.org still exists :)

I mean, either it doesn't or that's not the URL... I just pulled the name from a hat.

It’s http://www.neopets.com/

Wow they’ve been around for 20 years now, that’s not bad!

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by codetrotter »

leowoo91 wrote: post #44
TeMPOraL wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except people use aliases to protect themselves from spammers - who frequently buy or steal e-mails from companies like the one you're considering.

Then better alternative would be to develop a unique mail check functionality ignoring the + part. Maybe that could work for both sides.

When I helped my grand parents set up GMail they decided that they wanted one shared email account instead of one each. That has worked very well for them. Old people have enough to keep track of already so a shared email inbox for the both of them is great. My grandfather uses the GMail web app on his Mac desktop and my grandma uses the GMail app for iOS on her iPad.

However, when I set up Apple ID for each of them I wanted to create separate Apple IDs for each of them.

Thankfully Apple does not do anything like ignoring the + part you provide.

There are many ways spammers can create any number of email addresses.

Ignoring the + part of email addresses isn’t going to stop spammers, but it is going to cause a lot of pain for regular users because the + part has many applications that you can’t even imagine.

When the user hands you an email address, use that email address as is. Don’t ignore the + part of GMail addresses or anything like that.

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