atom thoughts

I just ran across an interesting feature of gmail. You can append a + sign and random text to the end of your existing gmail email address and gmail will send it to your existing gmail account. For example, if your gmail acount was fakeemail@gmail.com, then you could send email to fakeemail+nospam@gmail.com and you will still receive it. You can then setup a gmail filter to move these emails into the trash, or tag them with a label, etc.

I have been using this a lot lately when signing up with various accounts. I also setup a separate notification email address that I use to send automated notifications with a monitoring script when any of my sites are down (more details on this monitoring script to follow in a future post).