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Gmail.Period.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Aliases can be good or bad. The aliases we’re talking about today are good ones.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We’re going to show you how to use Gmail aliases to track how your email address is being used – i.e., when you sign up for something on the Web – and how it’s being misused — i.e. when you sign up for something on the Web.\u00a0 We featured a tip a while back about using the plus sign to create an alias from your Gmail addresses. The plus-addressing works like this: roger.smith121+paypal or julie.malinowsky+latimes @gmail.com.<\/span><\/p>\n See?<\/span><\/p>\n Eye-M.Mr.Tibbs+Muffinville@gmail.com\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Mr. Tibbs is going to know if Muffinville is sharing his email address if he starts getting email addressed to E-M.Mr.Tibbs+Muffinville@gmail.com. Caught ya, you silly muffin!<\/span><\/p>\n By adding a plus sign after your username and then adding some identifying text – you can create unlimited aliases from one Gmail account. These aliases can help you track how you’re email address is being used… and misused.<\/span><\/p>\n But did you know you can also create a limited number of aliases by simply adding a \u201c.\u201d (period ) anywhere in your Gmail username. This allows you to created many new \u2018alias\u2019\u2018 email addresses. Of course, you can then track all the messages sent to you new “period alias” because they will all get forwarded to your primary Gmail address.<\/span><\/p>\n We’ll give you an example: If you’re Gmail address is rogersmith1211 @gmail.com you could add a period anywhere in your user name rogersm.ith1211 @gmail.com. You can’t change “@gmail.com” though. Another example? OK. You could do rogersmith12.11 @gmail.com – are you getting the idea?<\/span><\/p>\n ZGil.Hark.bird.47.92@gmail.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n is the same as<\/span><\/p>\n zgilharkbird4792@gmail.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n If that’s a real address, God love ya, Gil.<\/span><\/p>\n Adding a period anywhere in your username is great for creating new aliases, but for tracking how your email address is being used, it’s not as useful as using the + sign. Still, it’s another cool Gmail trick that I’m sure many of you will figure out many ways to use.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gmail.Period. Aliases can be good or bad. The aliases we’re talking about today are good ones.\u00a0 We’re going to show you how to use Gmail aliases to track how your email address is being used – i.e., when you sign up for something on the Web – and how it’s being misused — i.e. when you\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17670,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/17670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}