@jen, thought to share potential help to having your email sold (re #C29JWV25N) If you have google mail hosted (doesn't have to be a gmail.com) you can use their "task-specific email addresses" to give out unique emails to everyone (they all arrive in the same mailbox).

If you host your own domain on google, you can also setup a catch-all rule that forwards all mail that doesn't have a registered mailbox to one address. I use that, and give out company@cddomain.com - I also get it to rewrite the subject to prefix it with the address it was destined for

oh yeah I do that for personal stuff all the time.

I can't remember how I did it - I'll check in the morning and let you know

Does anyone know if any companies actively remove the +whatever to get the real e-mail address? I always wondered since it would be so easy to identify and strip out

I think some treat it partially that way - I signed up for a couple games as myemail+gamename@gmail.com - password reset tool worked when I forgot I did that and left off the +gamename part, but game login didn't until I remembered and added it back

technically plus signs are a valid email username character, but I've heard of spammers just stripping it out. Also you occasionally encounter a system where they treat

+

as an illegal character 🙄 I like CD's catchall method more, but I share the domain with some family members..

Same with the dots in gmail addresses. I know someone that has an old gmail address from when the suite was free and they do that with a custom domain