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Well, I shouldn't have implied that use of the plus symbol is officially in the standards. RFC2822 states: "The local-part portion is a domain dependent string. In addresses, it is simply interpreted on the particular host as a name of a particular mailbox." The use of the plus symbol as described in this thread is a feature of Sendmail.

There is a RFC-compliant method of using the plus symbol utilizing the comments portion (see http://www.faqs.org/faq-maintainers/.../Sep/0017.html ). Here's an example: <[email protected]> (Joe Shmoe+somedomain.blaa)

Unfortunately, comments tend to be stripped when you add your email address to a database.

The % and ! characters hae special meanings in (now antiquated) ways of addressing things. They can be used as separators for parts of an address, not as part of an address themselves. Ahh -- those were the days...

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Originally Posted by DallasBill

I read about this (obscure) little trick the other day and I have to say that I have found it very useful already.

To your gmail address, add +XXXX when you use it to register somewhere online or buy something, or give out for raffles, etc. Number of +chars does not seem to matter.

You would do: [email protected] for example (not that I'm saying the NYT would sell your email).

Mail will get seamlessly routed to your gmail inbox. If you ever start getting major spam to +NYT, you can automatically route all +NYT mail to the trash or spam folder and change it to something else at the site. You also know who sold your email ID!

Same goes if you have a blog w/ an email contact there: [email protected].

It saves keeping up w/ numerous Hotmail or other accounts -- all you have to do is manage one now. Very slick! ^

That is really cool! Thanks for sharing this trick!

Btw.. just wondering, someone has told me before that if you have a gmail account, you can access a secret gmail "storage" space of your own .. eya.. not sure if I am explaining this correctly.. BUT if you do know what I'm talking about, can you explain exactly what it's for? and how to access it?

Thanks so much!

~Little Dragon Kitty

Using GMail for Storage

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Originally Posted by Little Dragon Kitty

Btw.. just wondering, someone has told me before that if you have a gmail account, you can access a secret gmail "storage" space of your own

You may be thinking of this: GMail Drive

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Originally Posted by tlglenn

You may be thinking of this: GMail Drive

Now that is cool!

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Originally Posted by tlglenn

You may be thinking of this: GMail Drive

Yes! This was exactly what I was talking about.

Thanks tlglenn! ^

~Little Dragon Kitty

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Originally Posted by xyzzy

hehe.

Someone may learn about it still -- I just donated my old UUCP book from O'Reilly (circa 1987) to charity with a bunch similar era books. I felt bad about tossing them in the trash, and the newspaper recycling bin said no books, and the charity was happy to take them.