Using a catch-all domain is a mistake

Are there any phone services that let you have multiple numbers so you could do something similar for phone stuff?

Lots of me-too’s from folks using catch-all emails and/or “+” addressing, but surprised no one is mentioning unique hide my emails as available from iCloud, sneakemail, etc.

I use 33mail with a custom domain and I use it as a permanent actually working unsubscribe button. I’ll sign up with a service for whatever, as soon as they start sending me spam and I no longer need the account, instead of trusting their unsubscribe button, I disable the account and never think about them again, been doing this for about 2 years I must have over 100 disabled accounts at this point.

1. I disagree nothing, I use catch-all and never had awkward conversations like the author had. Who cares, it's an email. I repeat it twice.

2. Government has transparency laws, they didn't sell his email used to support "bernie" rather due to voting laws and donation laws, that information is public and is posted and given away for free that is why you should err to use your email address to communicate with federal or state bodies because they are required to follow state laws for transparency and federal laws.

Forging or creating an actual account/alias to then "send" from if the email doesn't exist is a trivial process, you can even do it from a shell even in Microsoft Exchange and PostFix.

There's something even worse than the "please write to us from your original email". On a number of occasions, I've had some random people use my email address to sign-up for something and then occasionally I have to actually contact a random company to unsubscribe me and/or delete the account.

When this happens, I've had a few insane companies insist that I send them a screenshot from my gmail app/web page, etc. to "prove" it's my email address. I have steadfastly refused despite some rather angry responses insisting that I have to. I have responded very strongly and politely that I have to do no such thing as I have no business relationship with their company. Usually once I point out that they're sending someone else's private information (receipts, etc.) to a completely unrelated individual and they could be held liable they relent and delete/unsubscribe my email address.

The most insane of these was when Uber started emailing me someone's trip receipts every time they took a trip for someone in Australia. When I contacted them, they refused to believe me and said it wasn't possible. I ended up finding one of their technical VPs on LinkedIn, messaged them blindly, and "mysteriously" it resolved itself two days later with a polite apology.