From the headline and domain, I assumed this was about faking a death to stop LinkedIn emails.
Do people really get emails from Linkedin after opting out of every category?
https://twitter.com/darylginn/status/590664399041519617 rings true.
On the address that does have an account, I've opted out of every kind of email. They just keep adding new kinds of emails every few months that I then have to opt out of again.
<username>+label[+morewords]@gmail.com
where + is ignored by Gmail servers when matching, and 'label' can be defined by you. This keeps emails routing to the same account, but allows you to filter.
I am aware of that, my point stands "its a pain in the ass and requires effort for very, very little return."
Good luck finding services that accept a + in the email address and this is so common you aren't fooling anyone, it takes just a couple lines of code to strip pluses out of gmail addresses to get the "real" address if you are a spammer.
Getting creepy LinkedIn spam is such a non-issue it isn't worth exerting even a moderate amount of effort.
variation-on-first-name+servicename@lastname.com - works
variation-on-first-name@lastname.com - black hole.
Give friends #1. Give services #2.
(Happy panix.com user.)
Where is this "pain in your ass"? With Gmail at least, you don't need to actually _create_ an alias before using one.
When prompted to enter an email somewhere on the web, you have to type your email in, regardless, correct? In that process, append '+domain' to your username and you've just created an alias for that domain. It's very low overhead.
> Good luck finding services that accept a + in the email address
I haven't come across one yet. Maybe you can cite a source? I am not disagreeing, just saying maybe you can give examples to back up these vociferous claims.
> strip pluses out
So far, Gmail is the only service I am aware of that uses '+' in this way. Other services may not have the same method (e.g., use another character).
Why would spammers actually _care_ to realize you're using a 'filter technique'? The lay person probably doesn't even know this feature exists, and spammers aren't targeting people like you, anyway.