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<blockquote data-quote="Psionicist" data-source="post: 2810256" data-attributes="member: 1874">If you use gmail there's a nice trick you can use to keep track of what site sold/gave your e-mail to spammers.Whenever you give someone your e-mail address (except for friends), append +something right before the @. For example, when you sign up to The Dog Site, don't write <a href="mailto:pete@gmail.com">pete@gmail.com</a>, write pete+dogsite@gmail.comThe basic idea is that gmail will ignore everything you write between the + and the @ (except for spaces), so you can use text after the plus as a kind of tag or &quot;watermark&quot;. If you recieve spam, you will know where it came from.You can also use this when you post your e-mail on forums, to know where the e-mail harversters roam. Like this:psionicist+enw@gmail.comTry it! E-mail yourself but add a plus and some text before the @. You will recieve it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psionicist, post: 2810256, member: 1874"] If you use gmail there's a nice trick you can use to keep track of what site sold/gave your e-mail to spammers. Whenever you give someone your e-mail address (except for friends), append [u]+[i]something[/i][/u] right before the @. For example, when you sign up to The Dog Site, don't write [email]pete@gmail.com[/email], write pete[u]+dogsite[/u]@gmail.com The basic idea is that gmail will ignore everything you write between the + and the @ (except for spaces), so you can use text after the plus as a kind of tag or "watermark". If you recieve spam, you will know where it came from. You can also use this when you post your e-mail on forums, to know where the e-mail harversters roam. Like this: psionicist+enw@gmail.com Try it! E-mail yourself but add a plus and some text before the @. You will recieve it. [/QUOTE]

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