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Did you know that you can create custom email addresses using the hidden character set of Gmail?

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Here is a great little tip: When using Gmail or Google Apps Email, you can add additional words after inserting a “+” symbol, and they are ignored. Likewise any periods are ignored as well.

For example, when signing up for a website, you can add that website’s url to your existing Gmail or Google Apps Email address (eg. YourName+thewebsiteurl.com@gmail.com). You could alternatively do Y.ourName@gmail.com or You.rName@gmail.com, etc., as the period will be ignored, but is still visible to you for filtering out those emails from others sent to your regular email address (YourName@gmail.com).

This tip allows you to block that particular subscription whenever you wish, and also be able to identify if that website distributed your email address to others such as spammers.

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  1. Nomad
    July 6, 2010 at 12:31 am #

    Thank’s for very interesting useful tip

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