Yahoo! Plus has a much better system where you use a different base email address plus the sub-address rather than your regular address.
For example, if my account is "[email protected]" then you use [email protected]. But with yahoo, you pick an alternate, e.g. "huggybear", and use that instead ([email protected]). That way if a spammer seems the sub-addressed account, they can't send email to [email protected] unless they want to end up on Yahoo's blacklist.
I've had a great deal more success with Yahoo's sub-addressing than Google's.
I should clarify: with Yahoo plus you only create one base for all your sub-addresses, not a new base for every sub-address.
So in my earlier example, if you wanted to sub-address ebay, amazon and hackernews you'd have huggybear-ebay@, huggybear-amazon@ and huggybear-hn@.
The big deal is that huggybear@ != someone@ and sending to huggybear@ won't reach someone@ and likely earns you a place on their blacklist (or some points towards ending up there).
Yahoo! Plus has a much better system where you use a different base email address plus the sub-address rather than your regular address.
For example, if my account is "[email protected]" then you use [email protected]. But with yahoo, you pick an alternate, e.g. "huggybear", and use that instead ([email protected]). That way if a spammer seems the sub-addressed account, they can't send email to [email protected] unless they want to end up on Yahoo's blacklist.
I've had a great deal more success with Yahoo's sub-addressing than Google's.