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by supriyo-biswas 614 days ago
Conversations caused by the odd looking email address can often get very nasty.

This is why I also like how iCloud does with their hide my mail feature; there’s nothing suspicious about the email you give out.

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It only has to be unique. It's easy to find out who you gave it to by looking at the very first email.

ROT13 or the date in base36 (to keep it short) might help when you need to spell your email address over the phone. Today is oaf@example.com.

Hiding information behind a non-standard encoding is a really smart idea.

I will update my technique to use incorporate this method, thanks!

Unix epoch `date +%s` still only requires 6 characters. I really like your idea.