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Typically organizations that harvest email address...

2012-01-01T09:55:08.493-04:00

Typically organizations that harvest email addresses and sell them do so in bulk.

They arent likely to be individually checking for this, so if someone gives an address like theirird+suspect@gmail.com, that is the exact email address they will be sold, so if someone other than the company that gave it to starts emailing them it will be to theirid+suspect@gmail.com, so they will know "suspect" was who shared their email with that other entity.

So, if I am twitter and I get yourid+twitter@gmail...

2011-01-12T18:04:57.272-04:00

So, if I am twitter and I get yourid+twitter@gmail.com then if I sell yourid@gmail.com you would be able to know that I was the one who sold it?

Thanks Dale - this is awesome!

2009-02-20T00:14:00.000-04:00

Thanks Dale - this is awesome!