Tag Info

Not sure about other services, but another little-known trick that works in Gmail is this: Periods (.) are ignored. That means if your address is joesmith@gmail.com, email sent to all the following would still arrive: joesmith@gmail.com joe.smith@gmail.com j.oesmith@gmail.com joesmit.h@gmail.com Personally, I always insert a period after the first letter ...

Here's a great workaround using a free Google Apps For Your Domain account and "minus" addressing: http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/automatic-disposable-email-addresses-for-google-apps-611.html Basically you turn on the catch all, and then have that account forward any email wherever you want.

Update 2012-09-28: tempalias is no longer running; the source code is available though. If you simply need a disposable address, tempalias provides a very nice service that will give you a disposable address that expires after either a certain number of messages or a certain amount of time has passed. If you care about this kind of thing, tempalias is ...

My advice is to report email as SPAM, as Gmail has a pretty efficient engine at detecting SPAM once it knows your habits. Another option is to use Filters and Labels to sort mail which is directly addressed to you, so you can identify them easier. But the efficiency of the latter depends much on how the SPAM is sent. To set up a filter to remove ...

If you have a Yahoo Premium Account, it let's you use the '-' character. Additionally, there is no way to find out your real email address. For example, I can easily know that your email address is john@gmail.com if you give me the email address john+foo@gmail.com. I think it's only a matter of time until the spammers start removing the plus sign. If you ...

In Gmail, marking email as spam only marks it as spam for you, not for others. If Google determines a message is spam, it is based on algorithms that match certain tendencies and phrasing that suggest the message is spam. Google doesn't share this information under almost all circumstances. So, no, the message is not reported to outside companies.

The use of either or both of the links under "Report abuse:" at the bottom of the add message is safe (contrary to Frozenskys' comment) because Yahoo! does not harvest addresses in that fashion. Assuming of course that the notice you received actually is from Yahoo (check the link addresses before clicking). The first one gives the group management a "black ...

Mailinator will accept mail for any domain - so if you have a domain of your own, or if you want to register one yourself, you can point the MX records for a host/domain name to mailinator, and then pick up the email thru Mailinator's web interface.

I know this is an old question, but I thought I'd add fresh insight and also see if I could get any more answers to this, since I still don't have one I'm satisfied with. There seems to be no other way of getting in touch with OP other than an answer. There are three services I'm aware of that do this: GishPuppy (which is what I currently use), Sneakemail ...

The page you link to has a big red button with the following text underneath Use this button to report spam abuse. This will create a new section/report on the talk page. Click that button and it takes you to a new page where you can report the spam. You need to one of the specified templates: {{IP summary|127.0.0.1}} -- to report anonymous editors ...

You could use the "FB Purity" browser extension's Custom Text Filter to accomplish this task. First get FB Purity here: http://fbpurity.com Then setup a custom text filter. if the guys name was "joe bloggs" then you would add a custom text filter of "Joe Bloggs was tagged in" though you need to leave the quotes out and that will filter out any posts ...

Use the alias as the main e-mail, and filter out the rest. E.g. if your friend is spamming you on namesurname@, use name.surname@ as your default email (change in your profiles, etc.). You can also use + sign, like: example+nospam@ to do the similar thing. See: http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=12096

There is SpamFence. SpamFence offers professional e-mail security with spam filter and e-mail categorization service and it's free for private use. How does SpamFence work?

My company Gmail account was once spammed by nasty things about viagra and so on. I couldn't really resolve it at first but here's what I did: Click "Create a filter" at the top of the Gmail window, to the right of the search bar; Enter the modified email address in the "To" field, and click "Next"; Select the appropriate action, such as marking the ...

I've always used Sneakemail and have been extremely happy with it. It's allows me to quickly create temporary email addresses which are automatically forwarded to my real (private) email address. When sending email to a new site, use Sneakemail.com's web interface to create a new "Sneakemail address". Label it so you know who you gave it to - ...