On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Elijah Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] -- which AFAIR is some other guy > and also not me. I guess maybe their filter code DOES understand what > +string does -- it just does bad things with dots. > Google does allow you to append +anything to your email address, and strips off the +anything to figure the account name. I use this on a number of sites to determine how I am getting spam from someone. If I sign up for an account with [email protected], and I receive email soliciting pain pills to my "[email protected]" email, then I'm pretty sure untrustedvendor sold my email address. The problem with using this is that it really confuses some websites, as "+" is a special database character that is either not allowed or is allowed, but makes the account unusable. So, if you look at the "show original" feature of gmail, you'll see: Delivered-To: [email protected] Yahoo had a similar feature where you could have [email protected] as your email address, but "[email protected]", "[email protected]" would be redirected to your account, but you'd have to explicitly enable or disable "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" -- Regards, Larry Weiner [email protected]
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