But... just b/c your account is run on Gmail, don't think it automatically works.  We had to add an e-mail alias for my.name@hackaday.com after I got business cards printed based on this assumption. 

For fake/disposable/identifiable e-mails, I can only extremely heartily recommend Spamgourmet.  It's been an awesome (nearly) 20 spam-free years for me.  For real.

thank you Daren...Schwenke!

You are a funny...guy.  :)

I really meant it, too. I didn't know this, and it may come in useful.

There was a time when I would set up individual email accounts in the attempt to segregate project, business, and personal emails. I also went down the email forwarding rabbit hole. This has proven to be a much simpler solution.

This is no secret, it's been known for a long time. It's even in a Google help document: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en In fact any number of periods between the letters are ignored, so you can squeeze out more than two names.

Thanks. That last bit is actually useful!  Never needed to go beyond 2 yet, and I have no idea if this is common knowledge.  Just popped in my head so I thought I would share.