Interesting gmail feature

Posted on October 17, 2006
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You can append “+something” to a gmail address and it still comes through… for example, “myname+teqlo@gmail.com” would still be delivered to my inbox. So why would you want to do this? I don’t have specific use case examples but filtering is certainly one scenario. The other interesting use would be to use this to see what email lists are being sold… for example, if I use “nyname+buycom@gmail.com” as my login for buy.com I would be able to determine who they are sharing their list with, if they even are, based on the frequency by which I get email addressed to that alias.

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