"List all email addresses you've used over the last ten years"

[vkc@linuxmom.net]

"List all email addresses you've used over the last ten years"

lol, like many of us I've used services to generate unique emails for each account I use online. I have at least a thousand email addresses.

[vkc@linuxmom.net]

This is always fun when I do the rewards points at the local bookstore or coffee shop or whatever, because they ask "what's your email" and I chuckle as I pull out my phone and hold the line up.

[veronica@mastodon.online]

@vkc Yeah, and also work emails? I don't even remember them. I have worked at multiple places the last ten years, and have had multiple aliases for many of them.

[traecer@techhub.social]

@vkc yeah, I'm pretty sure the point is to make it so onerous to visit the US that people just...won't.

Of course, this will KILL US tourism.
#politics #USPol

[squaloujenkins@fosstodon.org]

@vkc funniest part is when you have automatic aliases (or catchall, whatever), when company "foobar" asks for my email and I say "foobar@somedomain" they tend to not believe it works :)

[ghalfacree@mastodon.social]

@vkc I use a catch-all on my domain, so my answer to that is always "yourcompanyname at halfacree.co.uk".

[vkc@linuxmom.net]

@traecer yes! And also, I hope sincerely that other countries don't adopt a similar stance (at least amongst each other, I totally get it if USians get scrutinized a bit more given the current moment).

[mjj@mstdn.dk]

@veronica @vkc I have had *a number* of domains over the last decade. Just the catch-all addresses do amount to a bit

[dekoftheyautja@social.vivaldi.net]

@ghalfacree People get VERY confused when I do this 😂 "Oh do you work for the company?". No person, that's now how domains work.

[mkj@social.mkj.earth]

@vkc Someone joked about *@domain.example. That would work, except with commercial services it'd be too broad instead, even if they'd accept it which they probably wouldn't. :-)

[vkc@linuxmom.net]

@ghalfacree I obfuscate a bit more than that and spread it amongst a few domains in order to increase my privacy a bit more. But yeah, a catch-all is a great way to get that done!

[veronica@mastodon.online]

@traecer I'd love to visit again, but I won't under this regime or any like it that may follow. I was last there in October 2016 and had a view of the Trump tower in Chicago from my hotel room window. I was not amused.

@vkc

[vkc@linuxmom.net]

"Officer, it'd be faster for me to list the email addresses I haven't used." - me, next time I cross a border probably

[dcdeejay@mastodon.online]

@vkc Get video of their response! 😅

[vkc@linuxmom.net]

@dcdeejay I wouldn't cross a border with a cell phone at this point, lol.

[raganwald@social.bau-ha.us]

@vkc Apple installs that service on every device it sells except AirTags and Watches. Others do as well: We can have an email for each different person we know, if we like. It's good for managing spam, but a secure service like that would also mess with data correlation. Perhaps this is a direction we should all move towards?

[stereo4x4@techhub.social]

@squalouJenkins
They: "is this really your mail address?"
Me: "Well, its one specifically for you so in case you leak my customer data or sell it or start to send spam, I know it originates from you and I can blacklist you"
They: "No, we want your real mail address"
Me: "🤷‍♂ so just write me a physical letter I guess"

@vkc

[leberschnitzel@existiert.ch]

@squalouJenkins I have that mostly with local companies that are like "your email address... seems weird?" "yes, it does but yes it works". @vkc

[leberschnitzel@existiert.ch]

@vkc I do to and I'm currently annoyed with companies using the email address to map me to my real address to ship things. UPS is so confused about that...

[elb@social.sdf.org]

@vkc SO TRUE.

$ grep elb aliases | wc -l
168

... and that's just on one domain. Maybe we can just list entire domains, along with the addresses on each domain that _aren't_ ours?