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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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[โ€“] 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.

[โ€“] 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.