Great post. you could also use lastnam.e@gmail.com for trash sites and possibly set up a filter if you get junk from a group of trash sites.
For that purpose though, i have a second email account that comes to my main email (i can send and receive) its archived so its not in my inbox, and if it gets too spammy, i just drop it.
I don't give my main email out unless i know you are a person.
The only problem is that not all sites will accept emails with the + tags added on :-(
ReplyDeleteStill, a great tip for the sites that do.
@Slidell Foxton : thank you for that. I did not know some sites didn't accept it. I never ran into that problem before.
ReplyDeleteI will update my post to let people know. Can you give me an example of a site that won't accept it so I can post it as well?
Great post. you could also use lastnam.e@gmail.com for trash sites and possibly set up a filter if you get junk from a group of trash sites.
ReplyDeleteFor that purpose though, i have a second email account that comes to my main email (i can send and receive) its archived so its not in my inbox, and if it gets too spammy, i just drop it.
I don't give my main email out unless i know you are a person.
And Booey doesn't qualify. FYF.
(Daniel Ely Rankin) I told you I was a robot in confidence damn it !!
ReplyDeleteIt's called an email alias I do believe.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this string. But google has recently retired the + operator. I think BING still uses it.
ReplyDeleteMore information here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Address_tags
ReplyDeleteApparently other MTA's, clients, and webmail services use different characters as well.
RFC 5233 on the topic: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233