And if you just add them to your spam filter, it won't even work easily, because they deliberately shift around the domains and subdomains they send from every so often.

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05 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I just use a unique address for each service. Any email that gets leaked or is getting unsubscribe resistant spam is added to /etc/postfix/denied_recipients :)

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tastyfreeze 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Appending "+label" to the username part of an email address is legal and will be delivered to the username mailbox.

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Jolter 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn’t sound like a very fun hobby, TBH.

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osamagirl69 9 hours ago | parent [-]

no the op, but I find great joy in looking though who sends me spam (based on the unique email used to sign up for each service)

I think it scratches a similar itch to putting up a game camera to see what sort of vermin are running around in your back yard.

	▲	nativeit 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You inevitably catch LexisNexis shitting in your herb garden and leaving squirrel carcasses lying about…

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volkk 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

this is where LLMs could actually help. create spam filters that an LLM can parse and deny if it looks close enough. but then again, hallucinations would be kind of terrible.

	▲	autoexec 18 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I agree this would be a good use of an LLM (assuming that it was running locally). I wouldn't put one in charge of deleting my messages, but I could see one being used to assign a score to messages and based on that score moving them out of my inbox into various folders for review.
	▲	csomar 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Same can be achieved with a catch all domain and a sub for every service you use. Cost $13/year. Extra protection: now if you lose access to your email provider, you still have access to future emails.