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Given that everyone knows about this feature, what's to stop spammers just stripping of the '+' portion?

• barkmadley 15y ago
  you can get the same effect with arbitrary dots. e.g. first.last@gmail.com is the same as firstlast@gmail.com
  • grk 15y ago
    Still, they can remove all dots from gmail addresses.
• cgranade 15y ago
  You can hide the + portion of a Gmail address behind redirects and forwards, if you feel so inclined. It's a lot of work, but it does let you use the "deliveredto" operator in Gmail to automatically sort and discard spam like that.
• drdaeman 15y ago
  Simple solution: give everyone address with "+suffix", and mark as junk any mail without it. For stubborn services who don't accept "+" in email addresses use unique redirect aliases. (Also, IIRC, Gmail ignores dots, i.e. "j.random.user@gmail.com" and "j.r.a.n.d.o.m.u.s.e.r@gmail.com" is the same address. Chose a canonical one with a dot somewhere, and filter the rest with exception for legimate senders.)