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Dan O'Donovan wrote: > Just in case anyone here isn't aware of this, you can also use disposable email address' with Google's gmail. ... > your.account+<boxnet>@gmail.com I certainly wasn't aware of it. Looks like a nice trick; I tried it and it worked (I omitted the angle brackets, assuming you meant them to indicate a variable). But how is this address disposable? I can see that if I get spam at myaccount+boxnet at gmail.com I'll know that boxnet compromised the address but, having established that, how do I "dispose" of the address? Do you mean I add a line in my filters to reject any mail with that address? Hmm...after writing the above and thinking about it, I guess that must be exactly what you mean! Works for me. Thanks for a good tip. I sure missed the old mailshell.com service. Thinking about it some more, as this becomes generally known, won't spammers simply add a script truncate any gmail address with a + in it, yielding a valid and no-longer-traceable address? Or can we count on them to be really, really lazy? Ted
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