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user-inactivated  ·  3040 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Good lord. Thoughts on bulk spam?

    I don't know if that actually helps, but surely there's some reason every website has one.

So they have a real email address to spam/sell.



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user-inactivated  ·  3040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Or to ask about unauthorized access, or if someone forgets a password, etc.

And it surely does something to deter bots. I dunno.

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FuzzyWords  ·  3040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think it can deter bots. One can create a single gmail account shared by all bots and then when registering do this: [email protected] [email protected] ...

All those emails will get redirected to the single account [email protected]

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