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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+43Who's agitatin' my dots?
- clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34You can also use
username@gmail.com
username+digg@gmail.com
username+slashdot@gmail.com
username+signupatsomeothersite@gmail.com
username+nospam@gmail.com
Just to see who actually sends you mail using those addresses. - dallen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23I happen to like my dot
- jarbro, on 07/23/2009, -6/+22t.h.i.s.w.a.s.d.u.g.g.a.l.o.n.g.t.i.m.e.a.g.o@gmail.com
- rjnsmith, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Works for me. BTW - This is not really new, it's been like this for a while.
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I'll be emailing you shortly. With no dots bitch!!
- argblat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10It's fun until you forget your password or something that requires you to re-enter your email address that you filled in months ago. Site X won't accept your regular gmail address ... it wants the dumb ***** string that you can't remember anymore
- dharm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12096&query=alias
anything after the 'plus' symbol is ignored by gmail, but can be picked up by filters.
so my email is dharm@gmail.com. you can send a email to dharm spam@gmail.com and it will goto my inbox.
now i can setup a filter within gmail to take emails that are sent to dharm spam@gmail to send it straight to trash, or wherever - Lyanto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12(. )( .)
- chrisbtig, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Yeah, I noticed that the date google posted this article is several months ago... but I'd never heard of this feature and thought it was pretty cool. And yes, I did search to make sure it hadn't been posted to Digg before. This is a dupe-free zone. :)
- ziadoz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9This was discovered right when Gmail was the hottest thing to get an invite for. I still remember reading about it somewhere.
- dpollitt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The problem is that many websites won't let you register with a plus sign in your address. They read it as invalid and make you re-enter a new address. I try it for signing up for all of my *cough knitting websites, but it usually doesn't work.
- dpollitt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6No he is not. Gmail doesnt let anyone else register first.name.last.name@gmail.com if you have firstname.lastname@gmail.com. They are smarter than that. Dont worry.
- dongiaconia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I was going to post the same comment about using the + sign, but you beat me to it. Unfortunately I've found a couple websites that treat the + character as an illegal value for an email address. Being able to add the dot is useful in those cases.
- Nothlit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Unfortunately it's really easy for an untrustworthy web site to see that you used a "+" address and simply strip out the "+" part, thus rendering your clever little spam catcher useless.
- poipoipoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's new to ME!
digg. - ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5and a nugget of useful knowledge is gleaned from this story after all. Thanks mate!
- metalrock76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Created.. do whatever with it..
Password is digg.com - mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I lost you at the end there...
- WarMace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This comment is actually funnier if you reread the title article.
- canuckeh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Where that it works for emailing but not for logging in . . .
- Hale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you're the "real" johnsmith@gmail.com
they're just sending email to the wrong address. - mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.bugmenot.com/ anyone???
- melmyfinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The bad thing is some sites reject email addresses that have a plus sign.
- gfixler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've been using theirurlSIGNUP@mydomain style addresses for about 5 years, for countless things for which I've wanted or needed to sign up, and for buying things online. These all go to the default catch-all account at my domain. On my home PC, I have filters setup to dish all SIGNUP containing To: addresses to the SIGNUP folder, and under that I have things for particulars, like electronics stores I've dealt with, or all financially related things. It's allowed me to catch unscrupulous companies who sell my data, but the interesting thing is how unusual that is. After 5 years, I've only had about 5 places sell me out, from easily hundreds of SIGNUP addresses I've made up on the spot when filling out online forms, or signing up for online services. More common are newsletters from related companies, and in those, I've often found fine print that *almost* tells me whence came the spam. As a made up example, I'll might get some tshirt spam from someone claiming I opted in to their offers through an affiliate clothing store, and indeed, it's to someclothingstoreSIGNUP.
The one that shocked me was when my googleSIGNUP fake address started getting spammed. I hadn't even used the service for which I'd signed up (around 2002), and wouldn't expect Google to do that. I later learned that this had to do with some cookie vulnerability of some number of years ago. Still, every once in awhile, I'll get another googleSIGNUP addressed spam. The addresses really linger out there in spamland, which is why I'm glad I've been doing this for 5 years, as while it's not perfect, it gives me a far greater amount of control, stretching back to a time when spam was at a much lower percentage. I instituted this idea immediately after getting my domain - on a whim, once I learned that I had a catch-all account - and it's worked great ever since. For the few big offenders (20+ spams per day - morpheusSIGNUP and kazaaSIGNUP were the worst, after they split, and sold all their account infos), I set up a listserve on my site with that particular To: address, set to allow posts only by moderators, and to bounce all else. It's like putting up an iron wall.
The spam that's sacking me now is garbled, madeup crap to my domain, like kvcow91n58xq2@etc. The method does nothing for those, and about half seem to sneak right around spam database checks. - jk3us, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yeah, this is pretty old, but in case you didn't know, you can also append a plus sign and any extension and email will still get delivered to you. Like if you don't trust digg, but you want to sign up, you can give them username+digg@gmail.com, and if they start spamming you, you know it's them and can set up a filter to block such emails.
- nepawoods, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ha! When the dotted name came into vogue, I tried to register mine dotted (already registered undotted), but it said the address was already taken. I wondered why, as my name is relatively unique. Now I know.
- autodata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2However, the "From" field will still have the original. In addition, if you make a new alias without the dot and try to use the new dotless email that way (or add the dot if you created it without the dot), you get the annoying "on behalf of" behavior when sending email to some clients like outlook
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Damn. It doesn't exist. Someone please register it and then we can just slap it up and bitch about stories. We could even make the password "digg"...
- echo1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i wrote this song a long time ago, a real long time ago
- lykathea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2More dots! More dots! More dots!
Ok, stop dots. - BradDollar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@MrButthead
Yes quite certain as I tried to do that whenever I first got into Gmail so that I could forward spam and what not there only to find out there was no need and it was not possible. - shamam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Way to miss my Simpsons reference.
- TheCheeks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1while its old im sure some ppl didnt know about it like me. great idea tho, i think the plus extension is the most useful.
- KJKJava, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great idea. I'm going to start doing that.
- autodata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Have any of you who are getting email for someone else actually contacted the other person?
- chrisbtig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Later in the article, it says: "If you created your account with a dot in your username and you wish you hadn't, you can change your 'Reply-to address.'"
- chadlewis76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ditto, only in my case I'm the guy with the dot and I get his email. Annoying.
- Zappa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have the same issue going on personally. I am at joe.blow@gmail.com and the other gentleman is at joeblow@gmail.com.
I see all of his e-mail and I know he see's all of mine. Both accounts were created before google would not let a . in the user name. - metalrock76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yep someone changed it. :(
- surfing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's another trick append your email name with a plus sign (+) and then you can add any word you want.
name@gmail.com
name+digg@gmail.com
You can set up a filter to act on that email address.
Some forms won't accept this because they think that a plus sign is not valid in an email address. - yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To contact the administrator of experts-exchange.com, email to expert.sex.change@gmail.com
- autodata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How do you know the emails aren't for you? have you tried contacting the people sending the emails to let the person know? Are you sure that they didn't just make a common typo?
Regardless, go ahead and send an email to the dotless version of the address and you will see it always end up in your in box - kamandu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1looks like the password has been changed.
it was cool while it lasted though. - Genma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hey that looks like a pretty good security feature too. you can use dots in the login and publish the address without the dots. never thought about it that way until I read this but now I'm glad I have a dot somewhere in mine, I just threw one in there cause we could.
even though dpo was kinda dicky about it it's true, they've had it since the beginning. I don't remember them mentioning the alternate recipients part though, good to know. - bugzer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1well I wonder what's going on then. the other guy is using johnsmith@gmail.com out there. i get emails meant for him.
i can only hope he *thinks* he registered it and that he actually isn't able to get in. - jtrost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I have always found this to be an annoyance. Someone has the same Gmail address as me with a dot, so I always get a copy of that guy's e-mails, which is a privacy issue for him. He's lucky I don't care enough to read them.
- kevinrowes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is so old, how about we stop right here?
Full stop (Period, in USA) - iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1then don't use stupid *****
use the examples, if the "site x" needs your email, use name+SITEX@gmail.com simple as that, don't use sitex2343243214109238123 or ***** like that and you'll not have a senior moment. - darwin22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0very interesting... makes sense now how they let me get ascii.character at gmail
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