From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #659 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, January 17 2013 Volume 16 : Number 659 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- for gmail users [Kerry White ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:14:50 -0600 From: Kerry White Subject: for gmail users This may be of interest: *"Your GMail address has a near infinite number of variations!* Did you know that your GMail address can be extended? It can be a fantastic way to uniquely identify which source that gave away your address to a spammer, but more importantly - it helps you to filter your mail! Let's say my address is mymail@gmail.com and let's say that I want to sign up for a newsletter for something useful - like a site for Silly Walk GIFs, If I signup for the newsletter with mymail+SillyWalks@gmail.com- that is not only perfectly legal and working, it also means that the mail that arrives, has mymail+SillyWalks@gmail.com in the *To:* field. So: mymail@gmail.com mymail+ebay@gmail.com mymail+NYPost@gmail.com mymail+ScaryWebSite@gmail.com i.e. *mymail+SomeRandomKeyword@gmail.com* are all working, valid addresses which are uniquely identifiable by you." ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #659 ***************************