I have hated web based email systems as long as I can remember them being around, but I love Gmail, and this feature is one reason I do. The ability to use these constructs to filter email rather than sort it are a beautiful system. Essentially you are tagging your email, and you can set up these multiple emaill addresses in a way that they can be automattically tagged based on the +whatever. Infact for a great private bookmarking system you can set up a Gmail account and then just email pages to that account from a right clcik and use +tag to automatically tag each resource with a main keyword. Unbelievable feature!!! A lot of sites have stopped this feature being available now, however. I think it's to do with them checking the syntax on email addresses, and thus dissallowing pluses. Gmail already has a similar feature that is more useful: "labels". If you want to label automatically your incoming mails, just go to: Setting -> Filters and create a filter, for example: Matches: to  news@somesitecom)Do this: Apply label "Newsletter" The control of this will still be in your hands instead of using of pinkyrocks+nytimes@gmail.com for nytimes.com to apply labeling. Additionally, you can be sure that many of these sites, already updated their customer database by removing "+" from their names. This article circulates into the Internet for 10 days and I am sure that they will do it soon or later. This Gmail trick can be useful only if you to catch who is sending spam to you b... this is really powerful! nice feature A very hot feature, but I agree with @rrusinov, that it would not take long for other sites to disallow + sign for newsletters or subscription purposes specially those spamming or similar reasons. As they a are more proactive than all other businesses over internet. Still i think this is another superb feature by Google stamping its creativity. |
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