I don't buy it. The number of people on HN that say, "it takes non-zero effort, and it was hell to exert that little bit of effort, so you shouldn't do it."
That might be a worthwhile message for a hardware hacker site where putting effort in to email configurations might be different enough from the meat of what most people are doing, but for this site? No. Don't try to sell "hacking is slightly hard, so don't do it" to hackers, please and thanks.
I've been doing individual email addresses for ages, and I've forced more than one company to disclose breaches because I was able to show with certainty that an address couldn't have been lost any other possible way.
That might be a worthwhile message for a hardware hacker site where putting effort in to email configurations might be different enough from the meat of what most people are doing, but for this site? No. Don't try to sell "hacking is slightly hard, so don't do it" to hackers, please and thanks.
I've been doing individual email addresses for ages, and I've forced more than one company to disclose breaches because I was able to show with certainty that an address couldn't have been lost any other possible way.