> Actually, the blame lies with Gmail, and specifically Gmail’s “dots don’t matter” feature. Totally wrong. Dots don't matter is a great way to filter your me

> Actually, the blame lies with Gmail, and specifically Gmail’s “dots don’t matter” feature. Totally wrong. Dots don't matter is a great way to filter your messages without giving an obvious filter. An example... I used to use first.last+yourcompany@gmail.com when I shopped online. But a lot of companies started blocking addresses that contained a "+" as an invalid address. So now I use firstlast@gmail.com for general shopping, and first.last@gmail for friends and family. Lets me easily keep the same inbox, but filter all the unwanted crap. Also, I like to rotate it around a bit -- since the lack of a dot doesn't really give me much insight... I will put the dot in based on which vendor I'm working with -- f.irstlas.t@gmail.com, for example -- then use my password manager to keep track of which vendor that goes to... another easy way to just block all crap I don't want from my inbox.