Another Tom Perrine (in the UK) signed up with Reed & Co (?) - some sort of job seeking site. I was finally able to get is straightened out by logging into that site (since they emailed me the password).
He had NO CONTACT INFO on his CV! Just his name. But he had listed references with email addresses. I was able to ask one of them to suggest that I wasn't planning to forward any of the interview requests to him. Her comment "I'm a reference for him? I sure wouldn't hire him, he can't remember his email, his phone number or mine! He stood me up our last three dates." On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Weiner Larry <works2l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Elijah Wright <elijah.wri...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> elijahwright+elijahyoutu...@gmail.com -- which AFAIR is some other guy >> and also not me. I guess maybe their filter code DOES understand what >> +string does -- it just does bad things with dots. > > > Google does allow you to append +anything to your email address, and strips > off the +anything to figure the account name. I use this on a number of > sites to determine how I am getting spam from someone. If I sign up for an > account with foo+untrustedven...@gmail.com, and I receive email soliciting > pain pills to my "foo+untrustedven...@gmail.com" email, then I'm pretty sure > untrustedvendor sold my email address. The problem with using this is that > it really confuses some websites, as "+" is a special database character > that is either not allowed or is allowed, but makes the account unusable. > > So, if you look at the "show original" feature of gmail, you'll see: > > Delivered-To: works2late+lo...@gmail.com > > Yahoo had a similar feature where you could have f...@yahoo.com as your email > address, but "bar-vend...@yahoo.com", "bar-vend...@yahoo.com" would be > redirected to your account, but you'd have to explicitly enable or disable > "bar-vend...@yahoo.com" and "bar-vend...@yahoo.com" > > -- > Regards, > > Larry Weiner > works2l...@gmail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
