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jasonjayr on Jan 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: GitHub now blocks aliased email addresses

Using random emails like that is a super easy way of getting caught up in a spam trap, which would get you blocked easily.

One of our users used a throwaway a@apple.com, which earned us a complaint inside of an hour, just by sending a welcome/confirm message.

mynameisvlad on Jan 27, 2023 [–]

That's not really an issue for end users getting emails at <somerandomthing>@<theirowndomainname>, which is what the thread is about.

bhhaskin on Jan 27, 2023 | [–]

But it is for spammers. Which is why it doesn't make sense for spammers to do that.

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