From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #656 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, January 14 2013 Volume 16 : Number 656 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- for gmail users [Steve VanDevender ] Re: for gmail users [Mike Connell ] Re: for gmail users ["Phil Sainty" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:46:02 -0800 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: for gmail users Kerry White writes: > mymail@gmail.com > mymail+ebay@gmail.com > mymail+NYPost@gmail.com > mymail+ScaryWebSite@gmail.com > *mymail+SomeRandomKeyword@gmail.com* This isn't a Gmail-specific feature. Lots of other maila systems support "plussed addresses" as well, and the standards documents for Internet email codified this address format long before Gmail existed. You may, however, encounter a lot of other web sites that don't think '+' can be part of a valid email address. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:32:25 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: for gmail users At 12:14 PM 1/13/2013, you wrote: > This may be of interest: > >*"Your GMail address has a near infinite number of variations!* To see who gave away my email addies I've been doing the same with my own domain email since day one. As a matter of fact, I've been doing similar with snail-mail for decades. When I subscribe to a magazine or give out my address to any similar entity, I've added either an apartment number (when I really did not have any) or eidted my apartment number with an identifying alpha...so a subscription to Sports Illustrated had "apt 2S', for Time was "Apt 2T" etc. Came in handy to identify which magazine sold me out. (Newsweek and TV Guide were the worst) Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:35:58 +1300 (NZDT) From: "Phil Sainty" Subject: Re: for gmail users In addition, trusting that spammers will not automatically strip the +suffix from any address would be optimistic. Google are being somewhat disingenuous by suggest that as a handy use for this address format (although if you were exclusively using suffixes for all communications, and then flagging messages to your un-suffixed address as spam, it could become a useful approach). Of course if you control your own mail server and domain, you could use genuinely unique addresses for different purposes, and then you really could track which ones ended up on spam lists. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #656 ***************************