Gmail Trick

I found out today from Wikipedia a useful trick for all you lucky people with Gmail (including me, heheh). For example, our address is the.nerd.herd@gmail.com. We will also recieve any emails you send to thenerdherd@gmail.com, t.hener.dher.d@gmail.com, t.h.e.n.e.r.d.h.e.r.d@gmail.com or any other combination of the letters in the address and dots. This basically shows that the dots in the address are ignored when resolving addresses. Another, much more handy trick is plus-addressing. This means that you can send emails to the.nerd.herd+string@gmail.com, where string is anything. This makes it easier for the receipient to organise their mail, using filters for emails 'to' the address with a certain plus string. Problems I have noticed with plus-addressing are that you cannot send plus-addressed emails to yourself, and in my experience the string can only be six characters long, or is cropped. If you didn't understand a word of that because it was so badly written, click here for the Wikipedia article on this. If you want a Gmail account, visit our Gmail Giveaway page!