Stop Spam

Lifehacker tells us how to fnd out who’s spamming you.

• Instead of just entering username@gmail.com as your email, enter it as username+samplesitecom@gmail.com instead
• When Gmail sees a “+” in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send it to username@gmail.com.
• If you search Gmail for username+samplesitecom, you will see all massages that were sent to that email address.
• To see who is responsible for sending a specific message click the Show Details link and you will see the complete address.

Unfortunately, most of my spam is unfunny forwards from acquaintances. If only there was a polite way to stop those.