Another reason to like Gmail

Came across this great post on getting more out of your Gmail address.

Append a plus (”+”) sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com.

How cool is this? I normally use Gmail’s filters to sort the email I get, but with this new trick, filtering becomes so much easier.
myEmail+subscription@gmail.com for when I subscribe to a newsletter, myEmail+social@gmail.com for the social networking sites, myEmail+bank@gmail.com for banking purposes and on and on the list goes.

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