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Sharing email addresses

From user 460:

Consider when you send an email to two people . Person # 1 and # 2 both receive different email addresses for you . Person # 1 replies to all . Person # 2 receives person # 1 ' s version of your email address in the headers . Person # 2 can now pretend to be person # 1 .

Aside from the above , I ' m a bit concerned as to how well this sort of thing would work for any email providers with more than a few users . Allocating a new subdomain for each user , setting up a new email server for each .. sounds like a lot of work .

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