Comments on: Gmail Plus http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/03/09/gmail-plus/ Taming that torrent of information Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:53:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: MAS http://blog.proud-geek.com/2007/03/09/gmail-plus/#comment-53 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:36:53 +0000 http://proudgeek.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/gmail-plus/#comment-53 Problem is that many companies or spammers would remove anything after + to spam to your original gmail email. For example, curgeorge+xyz@gmail.com and I could remove “+xyz” so I can send to your original email. That still would spam to your gmail account and it can’t be easily avoided.

Yahoo is the best with disposable email address I have ever seen. Yep, you have to pay for plus email service at yahoo to get disposable email addresses. Spammers or companies do not know what was your original email address, Yahoo setup for disposable email address are completely different and all you have to create permanent “prefix” and “suffix” is your identify with companies, etc. So if my prefix is “dreamer” and you create suffix gap to make account with gap.com. So it would be dreamer-gap@yahoo.com and company will not be able to find your original email address by that way.

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