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I found an interesting gmail feature today when I was sending a friend an email.

I made a mistake by sending an email to joeblow@gmail.com instead of joe.blow@gmail.com, and to my suprise it still got to him.

This is a quote from the gmail help page when I clicked learn more in my email.

Because Gmail doesn’t recognize dots as characters within usernames, adding or removing dots from a Gmail address won’t change the actual destination address. Messages sent to yourusername@gmail.com and y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com are all delivered to your inbox, and only yours.

Well thats good to know.

One of the only ways to use this I can think of is to track which sites are sending you spam.

Next time you sign up for a new forum or newsletter, add a dot or two in your email address, then when you receive spam just check to see what address it was sent to.

This seems like something they would talk about more.

Any ideas why it isn’t?

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