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Gmail + Plus + Dot = Countless Aliases of Your Gmail Address
- generj 13y agoI use this technique frequently, it helps people understand my email address better. My non-personal address has severalwordsalltogether@gmail.com, so I use several.words.all.together@gmail.com whenever possible. And yes, I could have camelCased, but non-technical people don't encounter camelcase on a frequent basis.
- wnevets 13y agopretty sure this is as old as gmail itself.
- Nux 13y agoUntil Google decides otherwise. ;-)
- BWStearns 13y agoFound this out via HN the other day. I put a dot between every character in my address and gave it out as a contact method to someone. Their response was basically "Wtf....?"
- zalew 13y agoa feature 'discovered' every month by email users for a over a decade at least.
- TacoSundae 13y agoI prefer to append a tag to the end of the name with a + "name+redtube@gmail.com". helps with tracking who is selling your email address as well.
- oijaf888 13y agoSince a lot of services filter + in email addresses I changed my mail server to accept . instead. Its pretty handy being about to do username.service@site.com and not have to worry about it being blocked by a poorly created email regex.
- dccoolgai 13y agoCo-worker showed me this. It's great for testing web apps - you can have all the types of authentication go back to 1 address.