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Just a note that Google lets you get a new email address that isn't spammable, through security through obscurity:
-> You can use your gmail address, add a + after it, and add a keyword. So if you are jsmith@gmail.com you can give out jsmith+syncfusionpdfsuccintly@gmail.com and then later if that starts getting spammed you can redirect it.
NOTE:
This is an incorrect solution (Google, please fix this) because anyone can run a regex removing the + part.
Instead the correct solution is that if you have gmail open, in a single click you should be able to generate a high-entropy gmail address (that does not deplete the namespace) and link it on your end with "syncfusionpdfsuccintly".
If I already have gmail open, 7 seconds to create a new gmail address as follows:
1. Click something to start the process
2. Type "syncfusionpdfsuccintly" to tag it on my end
3. Click something to copy a resulting high-entropy gmail name into the clipboard.
I should then be able to paste it into a form, get it delivered straight into my inbox (
never spam), and redirect it to spam if it starts getting spammed.
This would allow people to contact us without ever getting into spam, while entirely removing their ability to contact us if this email address starts getting spammed. There are no downsides.
I believe Google's engineers are smart enough to move from security through obscurity (relying on the knowledge that no spammer can ever invent and run the exact regex s/\+[.]+@/@/g to remove the security through obscurity, as this would entirely break this security, exposing the underlying "protected" email addresses) to something that works.
Until that day comes you can rely on the security through obscurity to give out a secure email address that can't be spammed. Just add a + and a tag!
Please.
Google: I believe you are smart enough to understand this comment and implement this solution, which can be prototyped in 30 minutes and solves the spam problem forever. You can do it! I believe in you. You're 99.999% there and your security through obscurity works very well for me. I use it.
I hope you will go above and beyond and solve the remaining 0.001%. It would just make me feel better to know that a 13-character regex couldn't defeat your solution.