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"Please do not write to me from anonymous 'proton' email or similar addresses" (archive.ph)
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thought you guys would find this blog post from Brian Leiter today funny. he's a pretty good guy and a respected scholar so no shade on him, clearly just misinformed. i wonder if this is in some way downstream of the recent political drama around proton.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

My email is [email protected] so it's not exactly anonymous.

Edit: My real email obviously has my actual name on it.

[–] LordWiggle 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's funny, I have [email protected]

[–] Buddahriffic 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So it's your fault they had to add a period between firstname and lastname!

Now it's a race to get a good number like firstnamelastname69 or 112358.

[–] LordWiggle 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The period is optional. Not using it or placing a period somewhere else and it still works. Also a +whatever before the @ works too. Easy to see who sold your data. [email protected] and every spam you get with the +facebook in the address is from data Facebook sold.

Edit: yeah, whatever happens, it is always my fault. Remember that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's just an example. My real email has my actual name on it.

[–] LordWiggle 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah mine too, but am not going to put my full name here. The joke was mine is almost the same, but we have different names (I guess) so they are completely different. But now I want [email protected]. By the way, did you know your email works without the dot too? Or when you add multiple dots? You can also add +sitename before the @ so you can see who sold your data. So, [email protected] works just as well as [email protected] and [email protected]

Edit: firstnamelastname@proton is already in use :'(

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