[greengreengrass]

I started doing it when so many sites had broken + aliasing stuff, which I use for filing mail to keep my inbox manageable and actionable, as it was easier to type than my double-hyphen hack described above.

I’m not concerned about the leaking as my address is out there anyway and Bayesian spam filtering is still decent enough, but as an aside, I have had two companies this year whose user databases must have been leaked on the basis of spam received at company-specific addresses. I reported it to their privacy people and pointed out it’s highly unlikely this “spam” originated as their (tiny company name) being chosen by chance by a spammer who figured out my catch all domain.

They never replied, and I probably should have followed up with the local information regulatory commission in each case. Hopefully, my note helped them identify they had a leak and to secure their systems.