[ExI] Avoiding Spam

[Jason Resch]

If you use Gmail you can create a "dark" address for everything / everyone
you give your address too. Simply add a "+label" at the end of your address
before the @gmail.

So if your email address is sam at gmail.com and you sign up at Walmart, you
can give them sam+walmart at gmail.com and Gmail will still deliver the email
to that address.

Aside from filtering, it can also reveal who sells or leaks your email
address to spammers.

You could tell your friends to only email you at sam+priority at gmail.com to
get automated priority/starred straight to your inbox, and have it function
like a whitelist. (If you create a filter to handle such messages that way).

Jason

On Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 10:43 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 9:50 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Finally, I'm not so sure spam is that big of a problem. I get perhaps 1
>> spam message every 5 or 6 months, and I can live with that. _But_, I'm
>> extremely careful where I register and show my email address, so that is
>> probably a big contributing factor.
>>
>
> I have to show my email address in lots of places for business reasons.  A
> dozen spam messages a day is typical - but GMail catches most of them in a
> Spam folder, where they can be mass-deleted unread (though I do have to
> skim the senders and subjects, because occasionally a non-spam message gets
> caught).
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