Dotted GMails

So it seems that GMail addresses can have arbitrary dots in the first part of the email address, and still all the mails sent to those addresses will land on your mailbox properly.

So for example, all mail sent to hethu.n@gmail.com or h.e.t.h.u.n@gmail.com or he..th..un@gmail.com or whatever the creative dot combination you can come up with is still yours and all the mails will come to the same account.

Now why would this be useful? Well, you might want to give a specific dotted email address freely to the spammers and catch the spam easily with a mail filter and trash them. So when you are registering for a new website next time with your GMail address, think of giving it a dotted email address.

But wait, don’t get too exited. Will this neat cool feature create more problems than it solves? Couldn't the spammers just create arbitrary dotted addresses and spam you even more? After all, now they have thousands of dotted email aliases instead of one to spam you on!