Thanks for your comment and for sharing this lovely story, @themactep.
Indeed, I found it quite annoying to have to keep multiple emails and pseudonyms for my presence on the web. At the same time, I understand why some people decide to do it. Trying to find my sweet spot here.
@jalvarez @themactep@fosstodon.org
I suggest creating a forwarding account at one of these services:
* 33mail.com
* erine.email
* anonaddy.com
* simplelogin.eu
* burnermail.io
and create an email account that you share with no one except one of the services above. Then you can create countless aliases. If you're involved with 100 different unrelated activities, you can have a different address for each w/out the burden of managing 100 email accounts.
@resist1984, thanks for your comments.
Which of the above services would you recommend?
What do you do when you get spam through one of the aliases?
@jalvarez If you only register for one of the forwarding svc providers (FSP), I'd favor anonaddy.com above all. Some FSPs support on-the-fly aliases, which means you need not login to create a new alias. E.g. you can just spontaneously start using my-github-proj@jalv.33mail.com. on-the-fly FSPs are less hassle, but OTOH your userid appears on every email address, so spammers can abuse that.
@jalvarez Some FSPs issue generated addresses instead of on-the-fly. It's more hassle because you must login to generate a new address, but the advantage is that your UID is not in the address, so an attacker can't create aliases for you, and it also protects from your different addresses being tied together. Anonaddy.com supports both generated addresses and on-the-fly addresses.
@jalvarez The beauty of getting spam through these aliases is you know who leaked it. Consequently, I've discovered & reported breaches on banks. E.g. if you give Chase bank "chase.yadayade@simplelogin.eu" & no one else, and you start getting spam there, it's a strong indicator that Chase was breached. There are orgs you can contact that will do all the legwork of forcing Chase to confess.
@resist1984 Thanks for the explanation :)
@jalvarez Other FSPs are one or the other. on-the-fly: 33mail.com, erine.email, anonaddy.com. generated: simplelogin.eu, burnermail.io, anonaddy.com. (notice anonaddy.com is in both groups) Anonaddy.com is also the only FSP that supports #PGP. So you can give anonaddy your PGP pubkey, & every msg will be encrypted from their server to your inbox.