<div dir="ltr">On 26 December 2013 17:09, Torbjörn Andersson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eriktorbjorn@telia.com" target="_blank">eriktorbjorn@telia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 2013-12-26 15:30, <a href="mailto:m_kiewitz@scummvm.org">m_kiewitz@scummvm.org</a> wrote:<br>
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> The "plus" symbol also has a special meaning for gmail addresses.<br>
> <a href="mailto:spammer%2Bruiningforum@gmail.com">spammer+ruiningforum@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:spammer%2Bscummvm@gmail.com">spammer+scummvm@gmail.com</a> and spammer@gmail are also going to the same e-mail address and can be used at will.<br>
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> for further study: <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html" target="_blank">http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html</a><br>
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</div>Not just Gmail, actually. I remember seeing that used back in the 90s,<br>
though the earliest mention I could find at a quick search was RFC 3598,<br>
dated 2003.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In fact, I was using this feature (with plus or minus) in Shibboleth, a secure mailing list back in 1995.</div><div><br></div><div>And still use plus in order to see whether some particular website leak my email address.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But that's off topic :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Eugene </div></div></div></div>