We all get spam from all over. The problem that comes to mind is where on earth does it come from? Did it come from that photography website I signed up for? Or from the new tech news letter service? Or maybe from a company who sold your data? You may never know … until now.
This tip has been posted upon dozens of times in a plethora of places, but it’s worth mentioning over and over again. So lets say you are signing up for a new streaming music service, but you don’t want to give out your e-mail address which already gets more than enough spam. With many current e-mail services you can use this simple `hack’ to get around this issue. Simply add “+<some tag” before the @ sign. So the e-mail address you enter would be something like this:
myemail+musicblog1@gmail.com
So, your e-mail address of myemail@gmail.com will still get e-mails, but they will have the tag appended. So how does this help you at all? Simple! Set up a easy filter! All you have to do, assuming it’s spam, is filter myemail+thespamtag@gmail.com to the trash. It also makes for easier content filtering.
You can filter your news sources much easier this way, you can set something up like this:
myemail+photographystuff@gmail.com
myemail+IBMnewsletter@gmail.com
myemail+facebook@gmail.com
myemail+someserver@gmail.com
And then you know exactly where your mail is comming from. Easy filtering and tracking. Use it for all your tracking needs 
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