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.

[–] VitulusAureus@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There used to be an online competition years ago, I think it was called "TheMostSpam.com" or something like that, where you would get a temporary email address and it would track a leaderboard of whose address received the most messages in 24h, a month, and lifetime. Modern email tech rendered it pointless, but back in the days of the simpler internet, it was a fun concept.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Oh man, that would have been fun to compete in.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

What is it?

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This reminds me of the wood chips delivery in the driveway bit...

https://getchipdrop.com/

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Nice. I do collect virii of all kind. U never know 😁