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by Avalyst 3315 days ago
I do the same with Gmail, just add + at the end (As in username+docusign@gmail.com). Of course this has the drawback of some sites being to restrictive with their checks for valid emails and not allowing the + character
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If I were a spammer I'd loop through my email address list and strip out + and anything between it and @
Actually most of the web sites do not accept the + character.
Actually my experience is the opposite :)
The other disadvantage is that it's trivial to infer the true username from that pattern in an automated fashion.
Yep, it's not foolproof but it's better than nothing. And considering that the number of people using it aren't that many (I guess) spammers wouldn't bother