Gmail

[twirlgrrl]

An interesting tidbit about gmail that I gleaned from a community--not sure if it works or not, but I'm saving it here for future reference:

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Say your gmail address is janet@gmail.com and you sign up for something at abc.com. You can sign up as janet+abc@gmail.com. Gmail doesn't recognize the + or anything after it or before the @. This means if they ever sell that e-mail address or spam it, you would see that the mail was sent to you as janet+abc@gmail.com and know that it was that particular site that spammed/sold your e-mail address. Also gmail doesn't recognize .s, so j.a.net@gmail.com is the same as j.....an.et@gmail.com... etc. This is helpful if you wanted to use your last name in your email and see more clearly (eg, janetsmith vs. janet.smith).

Comments

[quinek.livejournal.com]

That's good to know... someone must have sold my email lately because in the past couple weeks I started getting viagra ads out the ass!

[twirlgrrl.livejournal.com]

Ew!

[psyko-kitty.livejournal.com]

I'm so impressed with Google.
OMG - on Friday I had lunch on the Google campus with some friends who left the company I work for to go work there. The "cafeteria" we went to had bacon wrapped Ahi, spring risotto, and a roasted vegetable dish. This is free food available to employees and their guests every day. Amazingly yummy.

[twirlgrrl.livejournal.com]

That is so cool. I totally want to check out the campus.

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

One caveat is that a lot of places that have a mail authentication scheme in place had lazy programmers, and they didn't bother adding the three characters of code which would allow plus signs to be seen as "valid" in an e-mail address, so if you try yourname+company@gmail.com in their form, you'll get an "invalid" error. I've run into this more times than I can think of. It's highly frustrating.

[twirlgrrl.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Just reading it I was pretty sure it wouldn't work all the time.

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

But it's always a small thrill when it does!