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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 101 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I know from personal experience that signing up an email address at huge numbers of random online retailers becomes very annoying very quickly.

Definitely don't do that with DEIAtruth@opm.gov.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's trivial to filter out at the server level though. Might waste a few minutes of time, but a competent admin would barely be annoyed.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 10 points 9 hours ago

“Competent”

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 19 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They're most likely only looking for email from other dot-gov addresses.

[–] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago

I don't think they are that bright.