Comments on: How To Set Up Multiple Twitter Accounts With One Email Address http://thebilliondollargirl.com/how-to-set-up-multiple-twitter-accounts-with-one-email-address/ Follow me as I make my first Billion online!! Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:10:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: amps http://thebilliondollargirl.com/how-to-set-up-multiple-twitter-accounts-with-one-email-address/comment-page-1/#comment-34 amps Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:09:16 +0000 http://thebilliondollargirl.com/?p=51#comment-34 They're not aliases; Gmail just doesn't parse anything after the + sign in the account name. It's also a great way to track spammers and filter your emails. Ex: A marketing offer or company requests your email address, you give them YourEmail+spam@gmail.com or YourEmail+theirname@gmail.com, and you'll know exactly who is selling your email address, and be able to boycott them for bad business practices. You can also use it to filter all spam, just set up a filter to send anything with "+keyword" to trash (keyword of your choice). It's also useful for filtering good emails from various sources. YourEmail+elist@gmail.com could send all mails from a certain elist to a specified folder. Gmail also doesn't parse periods. So if your email account is YourEmail@gmail.com, you can also give out Your.Email@gmail.com, or all the way up to Y.o.u.r.E.m.a.i.l@gmail.com. Another way to filter out unwanted email. More here: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-ways-to-use-gmail-filters.html They’re not aliases; Gmail just doesn’t parse anything after the + sign in the account name. It’s also a great way to track spammers and filter your emails.

Ex: A marketing offer or company requests your email address, you give them YourEmail+spam@gmail.com or YourEmail+theirname@gmail.com, and you’ll know exactly who is selling your email address, and be able to boycott them for bad business practices.

You can also use it to filter all spam, just set up a filter to send anything with “+keyword” to trash (keyword of your choice). It’s also useful for filtering good emails from various sources. YourEmail+elist@gmail.com could send all mails from a certain elist to a specified folder.

Gmail also doesn’t parse periods. So if your email account is YourEmail@gmail.com, you can also give out Your.Email@gmail.com, or all the way up to Y.o.u.r.E.m.a.i.l@gmail.com. Another way to filter out unwanted email.

More here: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/20-ways-to-use-gmail-filters.html

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