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My choice for email out of all the email choices out there, from ISP email to domain email accounts. I choose my gmail address to be my primary choice for an email account. Today over at makeuseof.com there is an interesting artical about my  gmail address for example lets use the email address scottymead@gmail.com which is my address, and lets say my mom emails me but she puts a period in the email address, so for example scotty.mead@gmail.com it still comes into my gmail account, or one day I was talking to a bunch of people and we exchanged email address and talking about email providers and I said something like ‘I love google mail, so someone who was attending this little get together decides to email me but put my email address as scottymead@googlemail.com it will still go to my gmail address. more examples that email can get sent is s.c.o.t.t.y.m.e.a.d@gmail.com. You get the idea.

Have you ever signed up for a service that sends you email on a daily basis like newsletters, ect? Well say you are over at cnn.com and you want to sign up to their daily newsletter that is received, well when you sign up you have to give them your email address, well you can give an email like this. scottymead+cnn@gmail.com Pretty neat I think, now your asking… WHY would I want to do this?

1. One email for every purpose

Instead of using different email addresses for various purposes (work, school, friends, etc.) you can use different variations of your Gmail and filter incoming mails by ’sent to’ address. For instance, all incoming mail sent to ‘Name.Surname@gmail.com’ can be put to folder ‘work’, messages sent to ‘NameSurname@gmail.com’ can be put to ‘friends’, ‘N.ameSurname@gmail.com’ can be used for newsletters, and so on.

2. Track/Block spammers

When signing up for some website, say thatwebsite.com, you can add thatwebsite to your Gmail user ID (eg. scottymead+thatwebsite@gmail.com). This way you can block your subscription whenever you want and even identify those websites that distribute your email address to spammers.
If you have any neat tips like this I would love to hear them leave a comment or email me at scott@scottsgnome.com or s.c.otty.mea.d@gmail.com and be sure you visit me at ScottsGnome.Com where you can also see me LIVE on camera.