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by aogl 2688 days ago
A lot of services don't allow +uniqueSection in email addresses anymore; just bear in mind..
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Because it's a gmail address, you can put as many . as you want anywhere in the name. Gmail strips them out when determining the email address.
Not as useful as `firstnamelastname+twitter@gmail.com` for example :/
Not as readable, but each inter-character spot is a bit, and if you have 11 bits, you can represent 2^11 addresses.

EDIT: Assumes Zero or One periods per bit-gap; if you can chain them, the sky’s the limit.

I just tested it with a bunch of periods. I got rejected with just two periods adjacent, and with quite a few more periods adjacent. So only bits. Looks like it can be used for filtering too.
Dots cannot appear consecutively in the local-part unless quoted.
I never understood why that was useful. If you're a spammer that harvests email address or if you're an unscrupulous service that sells your user email address to spammers, wouldn't you simply remove the '+' suffix from any gmail address before commencing your spamming?