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Good point. That still equips your competitors with all they need to ruin your reputation though:

email: some@real.address

username: F*YOU

submit!

Now your sending "Hey F*YOU!" to real people.

Yeah, you can do that. But at that point you might as well sign up to a freemailer and just send those mails like that ;)

But then it's not coming from your company's email address.

Yeah, that does not seem like an important issue.

If the entire point of the operation is to tarnish the reputation of the company then it seems like an important thing to miss out.