I am referring to your own email which you have signed up with some Internet service. For example, if you have recently sent your email to a website in return for an ebook, you might want to know if this website has sold his database (your email and many others) to another company who used it to spam the targeted traffic! (which is you!) It can be a terrible experience to get caught up by a spammer where you simply have no chance to stop them as they used different identities to spread their advertising word! They don’t care if you will just delete it or not… Because somebody will simply respond!
Introducing to the ability of Gmail to check the betrayer!
This betrayer has sold your email to another company! You might not be able to catch the company who spammed you… But you can catch the betrayer! How about that? It’s so much better… Of course there’s also a loophole around… Check out this site to see how Gmail finds out who spams you… Though according to that blogger, this feature has already been there for quite a while… It is worthed to mention it since there are so many websites out there now wanting your email to give you a gift or something…
Have you read his blog already? Quite a smart way of checking the email, right?
Ok let me modify what he’s saying in that blog, and add in something to make a better filter…
When you have a gmail filtering name, simply do a permanent forward your actual email to that email…
charles@charleslau.com -> charles+website@gmail.com
news@charleslau.com -> charles+news@gmail.com
So, you will know which email is used for which web subscription… And that should keep you tracking…
