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More Email Addresses Mean More Spam

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No matter what you do, chances are spammers will find out about all your email addresses. And they'll not spam every address equally, but they'll spam them all a lot.

More Email Addresses Mean More Spam

That's why it's probably a good idea

  • not to use more email addresses than you need.

The situation is somewhat analogous to roads and traffic: more email addresses will generate more spam like more roads will generate more traffic.

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