<div dir="auto"><div>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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So if your email address is <a href="mailto:sam@gmail.com">sam@gmail.com</a> and you sign up at Walmart, you can give them <a href="mailto:sam%2Bwalmart@gmail.com">sam+walmart@gmail.com</a> and Gmail will still deliver the email to that address.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Aside from filtering, it can also reveal who sells or leaks your email address to spammers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You could tell your friends to only email you at <a href="mailto:sam%2Bpriority@gmail.com">sam+priority@gmail.com</a> 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).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 10:43 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 9:50 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Finally, I'm not so sure spam is that big of a problem. I get perhaps 1 <br>
spam message every 5 or 6 months, and I can live with that. _But_, I'm <br>
extremely careful where I register and show my email address, so that is <br>
probably a big contributing factor.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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). </div></div></div>
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