A big irritant on Gmail is its single biggest misfeature (in my opinion) - mails delivered to, say, "r.mathew" are delivered to me ("rmathew"), filling my inbox with random (sometimes personal) mails. They try to justify it as a feature, but since they let people register usernames with a period for a while, this can either get very amusing or very irritating for a lot of people depending on their disposition. Why can't they just stop implementing this "feature"?
Anyway, I have now become used to quickly scanning the subjects and senders of the mails in my inbox to select and "Report Spam" the ones that are obviously spam and then proceeding to read the mails in my inbox.
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Another 'feature' that's not mentioned in the help section is the ability to add '+' to a email address and everything after that is dropped. So if I send an email to rmathew+gcj@gmail.com you would still get the email. You could set up an filter to classify all those emails with gcj in the To: field to some folder of your choice. A ideal email id would be rmathew+spam@gmail.com while registering for some of those pesky registration forms;)
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