What stays the same

Both choices can receive legitimate mail. Neither guarantees anonymity, trustworthy senders or secure accounts. You still need unique authentication and a dependable recovery plan.

What changes

With retiring a compromised alias, you can apply this principle: replace the exposed route once legitimate relationships have moved. With endless sender blocking, new senders can keep using an address after each individual block. The value is containment rather than invisibility.

A separate route changes the size of the clean-up.

How to choose

Use the simpler option when the consequence is small and the relationship is short. Choose stronger separation when recovery, public exposure or cross-context matching would matter.

  • Identify the route
  • Move legitimate senders
  • Disable before deleting
  • Never reassign old addresses

The honest caveat

Do not cut off receipts, warranties or people who still need the address. Make the decision for the risk you actually have, not the most dramatic risk you can imagine.

Give the next relationship its own route.

Create an MXDuck alias