Thursday, March 13, 2008

Cool Gmail Trick to Fight Spam

Are you afraid of getting spammed when you provide your email address?

Gmail supports "plus-addressing" - just add a plus sign "+" and a word before the "@" sign to create as many new email addresses as you want.

For example, if your email address is "user@gmail.com", mail sent to "user+newsletter@gmail.com" will also reach you.

Later you use Gmail's filters to kill emails to that address if it falls into the wrong hands.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

That is a very handy trick.

Anonymous said...

heheeheh, that's pretty clever, JDog. i'll have to start using that when i start building my poop porn empire.

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