<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>LinuxBender</author><text>One mild word of caution on this method.  I too have done this forever but recently I have been running into a few businesses that get really upset if their name is in your email address and they will flag it as fraud despite there being no logical reason to do so.   It isn&amp;#x27;t like I am using a domain name matching their name.  The most staunch and stubborn of these I ran into recently was The Tractor Supply Company.  I&amp;#x27;ve been trying for a month to get a gift card reimbursed that they cancelled the order on because I had their name in the email address.  There are a couple gaming companies that do this as well.  Just pick a name that is unique and put it in your password database.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tangoalpha</author><text>This would be a large personal disaster and a full time personal project if the service provider decides to shut down the service. One would have to crawl through all services they have signed up for to update the email addresses.&lt;p&gt;Instead get a domain. Configure email as well as a catch all address. Example anything@yourdomain.com would reach name@yourdomain.com which you use as your primary email address.&lt;p&gt;And say, if I am signing up for Netflix, I would give the email as netflix@yourdomain.com. The email automatically reaches my single primary inbox with the catch-all behavior. And if I find a lot of spam to netflix@yourdomain.com, I know which service is leaking my email address and I can quickly block all emails sent to netflix@yourdomain.com</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password</title><url>https://www.fastmail.com/1password/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>satysin</author><text>A custom domain with wildcard for catch all is how I have been creating logins for the past 17 years. It is fascinating to see which addresses suddenly start getting spam down the road.&lt;p&gt;It is also very easy to nuke an address this way once it is a spam trap.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tangoalpha</author><text>This would be a large personal disaster and a full time personal project if the service provider decides to shut down the service. One would have to crawl through all services they have signed up for to update the email addresses.&lt;p&gt;Instead get a domain. Configure email as well as a catch all address. Example anything@yourdomain.com would reach name@yourdomain.com which you use as your primary email address.&lt;p&gt;And say, if I am signing up for Netflix, I would give the email as netflix@yourdomain.com. The email automatically reaches my single primary inbox with the catch-all behavior. And if I find a lot of spam to netflix@yourdomain.com, I know which service is leaking my email address and I can quickly block all emails sent to netflix@yourdomain.com</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Masked email from Fastmail and 1Password</title><url>https://www.fastmail.com/1password/</url></story>