Gmail Address Aliasing

If Gmail sends emails for [email protected] to [email protected], then I would hope Gmail wouldn't allow another account to be made with [email protected] or [email protected] or any other permutation of the dots (or lack of).

How is this different/better than Gmail's [email protected]?

I'd use something else not plus because gmail uses plus so spammers may be aware they can change the plus to anything

Gmail allows you to use email+whatever. A lot of sites actually support this and this means it becomes significantly harder to determine what sites you use as each email+whatever is considered unique.

But gmail basically does this now with the +: [email protected], [email protected], etc.

Few people with gmail address still email me at [email protected] :(

I’ve got [email protected] and apparently someone with my same name believes they have the address with no dot, as they keep signing up for services like Facebook with it and sharing it with their friends who email me.It is quite the odd situation. I reply to their friends saying they have the wrong email, but they don’t seem to believe me. And they keep signing up for things despite presumably never being able to actually access many of these services that require email verificati

Too bad you don't accept email like [email protected]

The problem with gmail + emails is that it's well-known those are aliases, and anywhere you signup can just strip the "+xxx" part to get your permanent address.

I used to own $lastname.email, but I ran into issues with other people's accounts flagging me as spam.