For those of you that use Google Mail - GMail to most - there’s a feature that lets you  create a change to your email address on the fly and while still having have the email sent to your base email address.

Why would you want to do this? Many reasons. You can track promotions, track a variety of listings on Craigslist without having to ask a person making a query ‘which ad are you responding to?’, and even use a variation to sign up for a newsletter or other list and see whether they resell your email address.

How to do it? Move the period in your gmail to to wherever you wish, or even add one if you
dont have a period in it. Or, ad add the ” + ” sign to the end of your email address and add something to the end. if you are signing up for amazon.com, you can do “your.email+amazon@gmail.com<your.email%2Bamazon@gmail.com>” so that if your email gets sold, you know who sold it. for more info, follow the link below.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html

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