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by EdwardCoffin 3734 days ago
This is neat, but I'd think that buyers and sellers of lists of email addresses will just scrub these tags off of them.
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In practice, I haven't see that happening much. If spammers were smart enough, they would actually do something useful.

If a service you subscribe does this, it is a good clue for you to mark them as spam and delete account after setting garbage values.