Hedir Review : Find out who gives away your email address with Gmail trick

ImaFraud · Guest 100 Hedir Points

It would be fairly trivial to parse everything from the + sign to the @ symbol out of a list of e-mail addresses. I would think that most of the major spammers would run those kinds of checks.

PCBguy · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:39 pm Post subject:

In response to dfasdfsdfasdf's insightful and cleverly crafted post, I reviewed the Gmail Overview and FAQs:

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about.html

Unfortunately, I was unable to see any reference regarding the ability to use plus addressing.

As others have correctly pointed out, there are many other ways to avoid spam. This wasn't however, intended to avoid spam. Instead it was a way to more easily track its source.

Fighting spam will be a never ending battle as techniques and methods of both spammers and anti-spammers change. As with many things tech, once someone finds a way to build a better mousetrap, someone comes along an builds a better mouse.

renting movies · Guest 100 Hedir Points

the trick might actually be better if done with pop in reverse, for instance - setting up the pop with a name+nospam@gmail - and only retreiving that mail.

anondfgawefae · Guest 100 Hedir Points

use

(anyname)@dodgeit.com

then go to dodgeit.com and type (anyname) in the provided box
dodgeit does not require you to sign up and its free!
However it is not private. so do not use it for secure information

nobodyshere · Guest 100 Hedir Points

unbelievably, my yahoo "send the spammers here" account has remained spam free for 5+ years. None of my other addresses have ever fared so well.

another-anon · Guest 100 Hedir Points

Some sites reject the "+" character, such as photo.net. The nice thing about using this is stuff you really want will still come to you, and anything which becomes annoying you can use GMail filters and redirect (folder it) or delete it.

anonymousmiami · Guest 100 Hedir Points

I use a unique email address for each site.

hann0 · Guest 100 Hedir Points

Spamgourmet (w w w . s p a m g o u r m e t . c o m) is free, it doesn't give away your email address, and you can define who can mail you on which address!

anonymous2 · Guest 100 Hedir Points

I've been using this trick for a few months. But I've been noticing that more and more sites are now rejecting email addresses that contain the + sign.

BF2Junky · Guest 100 Hedir Points

why not just use dynamic email address creation at dodgeit.com?

renjipanicker · Guest 100 Hedir Points

Even though it's perfectly valid as per the RFC, the validation on most sites where we enter our email address does not accept + as a valid character.

FaithfulWeb · Guest 100 Hedir Points

Anon mentioned dodgeit.com -- something similar is at mailinator.com, too.

Tonicboy · Guest 100 Hedir Points

Yahoo! Mail Plus has allowed alias email addresses for years. I create a new alias for every registration. If I get too much spam on that address, I just delete it.

anonymous999 · Guest 100 Hedir Points

I tried this technique before but some sites will not accept + sign in the email address

thomastermini AT mac dot · Guest 100 Hedir Points

So another reason to switch to Apple: dot-mac, the email/net disk/etc. service from Apple has email aliases for just this purpose. When you get too many spam to that alias, turn it off.