I came across this neat little trick that allows you to utilize an infinite number of Gmail addresses. Why would you want to do this you may ask? Well, you pretty much have to use your email address to sign up to anything online, and sometimes you might start getting ads and spam for no reason, tracking down who sent it or how your email address got out can be a pain, so you end up just having to bear it.

There is also the matter of labels and filters in Gmail. Sometimes you want to know where the emails are specifically coming from but you can’t be guaranteed that the senders email will never change, as with a few forums I’ve found, their newsletter email can change from time to time making your filters, which look for the senders address, redundant.

Around 9 years ago I was looking for a new mail host to move me away from the fairly basic, ISP supplied, one that I was using (I think it was an oceanfree account?). Plenty of people I knew had hopped onto the Hotmail bandwagon as it was claimed to be faster, offer more storage and have a greater community via MSN Messenger. So I signed up and, compared to my last account, this one was a breath of fresh air. The storage space was amazing for the time, a whole 10MB’s, and the interface was pretty good.