ISPs don't really charge customers to supply them with bandwidth. They run a toll scam. They charge customers to stop throttling and rationing them.

Optimally, your email server would silently drop the connection and waste the spammer's time waiting for timeout. You don't want to return a code for "bad email address", since that just helps the scumbags.

I have my own domains so I like to generate unique emails for each merchant or other resource I sign up with. I also add a numeric code at the end.
Most of them hate it when you use their own name in YOUR email address, so I just reverse it. Yahoo would become oohayxxxxx@mydomain.com.
But the numeric code isn't random. I grab today's Julian day number and use that so I can also see how long it took for my address to be compromised.
oohay24322@mydomain.com is what I would use if I had to provide a "permanent" email address when signing up for a yahoo address today.

or HCL. or RAAS INFOTEK.

I worked through Cognizant as an internal help desk rep for Faecebook a few years back. The Cog management style sure seemed focused on making busy work and delegating wholly management work to the team.

As FB's help desk reps, we were invited by the client, FB, to join internal chat rooms where other reps asked for help with issues. Our Cognizant mgt ordered us to read these groups but to never, ever post questions there because they were afraid our questions would betray how poor our training had been. They posted people in the chat rooms to watch and report if they saw any of us participating. That was bad enough, but when I privately reached out to FB employees for help, THEY also reported my name to my Cog overseers, so it was a lost cause getting help.

I worked for Cognizant a few years ago. Fully-remote internal help desk rep for Faecebook. We were hired to work in the scenic Austin TX downtown office, but were switched to WFH due to COVID. Most of us quit later when they pushed to bring us BTO, but to a sterile office park leagues away in an adjacent county. I signed on so I could bike to work downtown, enjoy the culture vibe, and go for a relaxing ride around the lake after work.
All of the Cog company reps, leadership and my team's mgt. were Indian. They could have been racists, or they could have been a team of established associates.
We desk grunts were all local to Austin and looked like a diversity spread. It included a few people who didn't really seem to have tech/cs qualifications at all.

However, before that I'd worked for HCL, the Indian-dominated on-site tech provider at NXP semiconductor factory.
My on-site supervisor, who was Latin but could easily pass as Indian, recounted that he'd been invited to a meeting where he was the only non-Indian. Everyone was speaking English as it was their common language, so he had no trouble understanding. They were openly declaring that no non-Indians were going to get raises or promotions and laughing and joking about it. Pretty sure that was racist.

The universe seems to curve in ways that observable matter and it's mass can't explain. Examples are the accellerating expansion and galaxies sticking together despite appearing to spin too fast. The explanaion is that something else curves space.

The universe seems to act like a 4-dimensional bubble rising to a surface, with lots of smaller bubbles clinging to it's outside and denting the interior. As it gets closer to the surface, pressure drops and the bubble expands. It's a matter of the pressure gradient. Within the bubble, galaxies concentrate around the dents.Sometimes enough matter concentrates that it tears off and forms a bubble of it's own (black holes).

The worst "slackers" are those who are able to conceal it while also meeting work goals. Right?
How dare they not deliver themselves unto the office to have ever-more productivity squeezed out of them?!?

A couple of years back, I biked to work daily in downtown Austin. Since pea-headed twits treat the bike lane as a "just going to be a second" parking lane, I frequently have to swerve out onto the street to avoid these obstacles. A driverless test car decided to pace me one morning and rode along in the auto lane just behind me. It refused to move when I had to change lanes, forcing me to swerve back into the bike lane and screech to a halt. It actually SPED UP as I drifted left and signalled my lane change! It would have run me down if I hadn't known it was there.

@pz: Your comment is typical of those who are dead-set against giving wfm any traction. But your point is a straw man.
Nobody is arguing that every role is a fit for wfhm. Nobody is arguing to dismantle factories in favor of wfh.
So you're "right" but your point is inapplicable. You're "winning" against an argument that your opponent does not stand on.

We know wfh works more often than it fails. The failures are the rare instances, so yes let's try wfh for everything and see what sticks.

I used to have a heck of fun running SmoothWall 3 (aka "Express").
Their website is still up but last release appears to be 10 years ago. ;(

Literally the only thing I look for when shopping for a laptop is how skinny it is. Nothing else matters.

Interesting... at the beginning of 2020, I was hired to refresh the PCs at the Austin TX NXP facility. This place was the size of a small city and it was only 10% full or less. They put the refresh on hold for unknown reasons (didn't want to wipe any hacker evidence?) and made me join the deskside support team.

The place was mostly populated by busy-looking people from India who treated every other ethnicity as a lower caste. One of the deskside guys had sat in a meeting where they were talking about how nobody who wasn't Indian would ever get a raise or promotion there (they mistook him for Indian). After 6 weeks of still not getting a badge (I had to wait at the entrance for someone to come bring me in as a guest EVERY morning) or login accounts, I noped out of there. Very toxic and disfunctional environment.

Interestingly, a few months later I went to a job interview and the lady there thought I was someone else and pulled out a copy of one of these deskside guy's resumes when she sat down with me. That particular dude was an ahole and i'm lucky I didn't run into him as I left the building; he was probably also interviewing there that day.

Thanks for this lead! Actually, I found the old CritSuite website on archive.org and they had a list of similar "annotation-related projects". I believe the gadget I was thinking of was "ThirdVoice". They were accused of supporting "online vandalism" and obscenity and got sued, but they actually just ran out of money.