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[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 60 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I collect these into a database I run locally out of a bad habit I had as a teenager. Back in the AOL days you could 'Email-bomb' someone, and rightfully it sounds exactly like it is -- you'd just send them tons and tons and tons of email.

Well, turns out - that's pretty easy to detect and block. So I came up with a better way, a more permanent way; and probably the reason so many people see their email address as a private/privacy thing now -- You simply submit their email address to every known spam address in existence.

Now, you've got an infinite amount of spam being thrown their way, 24/7, at super high volumes, for essentially - what is the entire lifetime of that account. I haven't done it in the past 20 years or so, and I don't have any of my old 'progz' for it, but I figure one day when I need it again, it will be invaluable.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Listen to me...I have an idea...

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago
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