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   From: rafa@msn.com   
      
   por supu ya lo sabian... pero ahora tambien en vietnamita.   
      
   saludos, rafa.   
      
      
   2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address   
      
   Wednesday, March 05, 2008 | 8:10 AM   
      
   Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing Manager   
      
   I recently discovered some little-known ways to use your Gmail address   
   that can give you greater control over your inbox and save you some time   
   and headache. When you choose a Gmail address, you actually get more   
   than just "yourusername@gmail.com." Here are two different ways you can   
   modify your Gmail address and still get your mail:   
   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.   
   Insert one or several dots (".") anywhere in your email address. Gmail   
   doesn't recognize periods as characters in addresses -- we just ignore   
   them. For example, you could tell people your address was   
   hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com. (We   
   understand that there has been some confusion about this in the past,   
   but to settle it once and for all, you can indeed receive mail at all   
   the variations with dots.)   
   For me, the real value in being able to manipulate your email address is   
   that it makes it really easy to filter on those variants. For example   
   you could use hikingfan+bank@gmail.com when you sign up for online   
   banking and then set up a filter to automatically star, archive or label   
   emails addressed to hikingfan+bank. You can also use this when you   
   register for a service and think they might share your information. For   
   example, I added "+donation" when I gave money to a political   
   organization once, and now when I see emails from other groups to that   
   address, I know how they got it. Solution: filtered to auto-delete.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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