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by throw0101a 1585 days ago
> The other nice thing about RSS is that I am in control of my subscription, whereas email I need to ask you nicely to stop, and hope that you haven't sold my email address elsewhere.

Sadly too many places think that subaddresses— username+label_at_example.com —is an invalid address. Can't use it in usernames in many places. (It's been valid in e-mail since RFC 822.)

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This is one of the reasons that motivated me to get an email forwarding service with my domain, everything at prefix(.*)@mydomain.tld is forwarded to my email address, and there's no special character to block. I can then block specific addresses that have been sold to spammers