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I've read that I should use email subaddressing when registering for web sites. For example, if my email address is user@domain.com
, then, when registering for somesite.com
, I should use the email address user+somesite@domain.com
.
How effective is this at controlling annoying emails from somesite.com
(or, in the extreme, outright spam)? What is to prevent somesite.com
from stripping the +somesite
tag and sending directly to user@domain.com
? Is email subaddressing something that I should bother to use, or are the benefits limited?
http://superuser.com/questions/235937/does-e-mail-address-obfuscation-actually-work – random – 2013-04-06T21:25:53.313
@random I don't understand why this question is off-topic, especially given that you linked to a possible duplicate (which wasn't closed as off-topic). – Henry – 2013-04-06T21:40:55.743
@Henry - rather than provide an explanation random closed that question as off-topic as well. Even so, it does appear that both questions are off topic for Superuser.com according to the FAQ. I would not consider them to be duplicates... one is about obfuscation. The other is about +addressing which could also be obfuscated, but obfuscation was not any part of your question. – Kevin Fegan – 2013-04-07T00:21:26.027
@Henry - I use +addressing extensively. I very rarely provide my root email address. For me, I rarely get email to my root address from unknown senders, and most of that is labeled as spam by Gmail. Using filters to label +addressed incoming email, and email from known senders, is fairly effective because it is easy to see unlabeled email in the inbox (I wish it could be searched for in that way). This is only my personal experience, I don't have any statistical sources. – Kevin Fegan – 2013-04-07T00:31:57.310