Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I would also recommend naming yourself Viagra, Cialis or CBD.


This is actually kind of clever, but only if you give us a real email address.

We will often take your name and insert them into emails (for some dumb reasons around personalization supposedly increasing opens). But an email being stuffed full of spam words is a good way to get it flagged by anti-spam software and potentially hurt our sender reputation score.

You would probably have to do it en masse and use real inboxes. A couple other names you could use would be "free", "lovers", "singles", or any sort of mid word character substitution.


Keep a short list of your enemies' email addresses and use those as the destination for these likely-to-be-flagged signups to hedge your bet.


This reminds me of when I briefly worked at a major luxury fashion retailer.

We were not allowed to send emails with “pussy bow” blouses as they were getting caught by corporate spam filters


Whoever named those blouses wasn't an English speaker right? Right?


There is some year, between 1980 and 1992 perhaps, where people stopped saying "pussy" and meaning "cat". Until then, both meanings and their double entendres were used (cf. Octopussy).

One of my favorites was in Leather Goddesses of Phobos. Something like:

LGOP: ... there is a painting of a cat.

> LOOK PAINTING

LGOP: It's a very nice painting of a pussy, but is it art?


In the Bond saga (books and movies) and well before Octopussy, there was the airplane pilot in Goldfinger (the movie):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Galore


I never thought about naming me with potential spam words :o


Please, call me Singles. Hot Young Patriot Singles In Your Area is my father.


"Viagra Cialis, CBD" does sort of sound like a name with some odd post-nominal...


I want to have my name legally changed to Spam Likely




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: