Avoid Spam Create Disposable Email Addresses With Gmail
No matter how hard your email service tries, spam always gets through. Sometimes we have to register with services that then end up becoming spammers. If you are a Gmail user then you can avoid this by using ‘disposable email addresses’. Here’s how:
(i) Gmail uses plus-addressing, which lets you put a plus sign after your address and then anything after the plus sing, with the email still arriving at the right place.
(ii) If your address is say onetipaday@gmail.com, then you can also use onetipaday+junk@gmail.com as one address or onetipaday+spammer@gmail.com as another address. Basically you have an unlimited number of e-mail addresses you can use.
(iii) Then if any emails come into your inbox addressed to any of your disposable addresses then setup a filter to either archive or trash the offending message, without it cluttering up your inbox.
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Comment by fatt on 27 January 2007:
sadly the majority of websites that I have tried to subscribe to have not allowed me to because of the plus sign
Comment by Tony Williams on 27 January 2007:
Sadly, probably because spammers are now abusing this tip