Another technique is to add a . somewhere in your email address.

bobbarker@gmail.com should work the same as
b.obbarker@gmail.com

It would require a bit more setup, but if the + doesn’t work when submitting, it’s a decent alternative.

Yes…the dots also work but it makes a little difficult to remember where and how many dots you had put while signing up for a particular website

This does not work in the vast majority of cases. Theoretically it should but most scripts are improperly coded to not allow the + symbol so in practice this fails.
I once tried to implement this but the first 8 or so places I tried to use it would not allow the + symbol… kind of makes this (actually rather old… been recycled on so many blogs as it has been here) tip useless.

A good idea that I used a long time ago. This has nothing to do with gmail though. The use of the + character in this way has been a part of how email is handled since before the web existed.

@Vikrant: Free services tend to bend the rules, but they get away with it because they have so many users. I run my own mail server and have actually never had an address made in this manner get rejected.

Of course, since I run my own, I could just set up regular aliases for myself and it would be impossible to tell apart from the “real” one

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the net is awesome and shitty at same time. when good ideas come out to protect ourselves and people share it, they are just sharing it to the scumbag hackers and spammers as well so they can update their techniques and strategies. Not cool.

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Thanks! This is something I’ll be using a lot.

Or just get a life … several in fact. Gmail (and most other mail servers) allows you to have multiple email addresses and to funnel them all to a single ‘catch-all’ address. When an address gets overwhelmed with spam, drop it. NEVER use the ‘catch-all’ address for any other purpose.

“Another technique is to add a . somewhere in your email address.

bobbarker@gmail.com should work the same as
b.obbarker@gmail.com

It would require a bit more setup, but if the + doesn’t work when submitting, it’s a decent alternative.
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not true, i have like four gmail accounts, two of them same except one has a . in it because I was getting spam on the first one, and obviously the seocnd one isn’t getting spam..so the period apparently, at least for me and everyone I know..will create a seperate account.