Insert a Plus and Ditch Spammers
Spam comes to you through various channels:
-harvesters stealing email address books from your PC when you—or friends sharing mails with you—are visiting suspect websites;
-trojans and worms pestering your own PC, or other PCs where your email address is copied for legit reasons;
-various combinations of the above two basic methods.
The bottom line with junk mail is that you can’t avoid it 100% because it’s not a matter strictly under your own control. You pretty much depend on your friends, colleagues, business partners as they store your email on their computers. Comes in a new feature that’ll stir envy in any control freak:
Built-in catchalls!
How does it work? It’s easy! For every email address we host you can add
a + sign and then ANYTHING before the @, and it’ll go to the same place.
So, if you have an email address like say:
georg@mydomain.net
The following addresses now all go to the same place:
georg+whatever@mydomain.net
georg+faye@mydomain.net
georg+cadtek_hates_junk_mail@mydomain.net
What’s the point of that?
Well, now every time you have to give out your email address to somebody
you hate, you tell them it’s got a + in it and then some unique
identifier like:
georg+dontspammesteve@moonkah.net
And then when they start spamming you some day, you can easily set up
your mailbox to auto-delete messages sent to that address!
Like it? Then use it!
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