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Mailinator
Get enough SPAM lately? Have you ever gone to a website that asks for your email address for no reason (other than they are going to sell it to the highest bidder so you get spam forever)?
Welcome to Mailinator(tm) - Its no signup, instant anti-spam service. Here is how it works: You are on the web, at a party, or talking to your favorite insurance salesman. Whereever you are, someone (or some webpage) asks for your email. You know if you give it, you're gambling with your privacy. On the other hand, you do want at least one message from that person. The answer is to give them a mailinator address. You don't need to sign-up. You just make it up on the spot. Pick jonesy@mailinator.com or bipster@mailinator.com - pick anything you want (up to 15 characters before the @ sign).
Later, come to this site and check that account. Its that easy. Mailinator accounts are created when mail arrives for them. No signup, no personal information, and when you're done - you can walk away - an instant solution to one way spammers get your address. Its an anti-spam solution for everyone. The messages are automatically deleted for you after a few hours.
Let'em spam.
So for now on, everywhere I have to confirm my identity -- like when I am fiddling around with social networking tools, or signing up to get access to an online newsletter -- I will spawn a new Mailinator account.
This will lead to a serious reduction in email to my inbox, I hope.
There are interesting ramifications: I am avoiding the possibility of a single unifying identity (the "stoweboyd@persistent_until_death_domain.com") that people can use to find me right up to the funeral. So be it. I'm not sure how well I like the single identity concept anyway.
[pointer from Wired]
What happens if someone else at a different party gives the same email address?
Permalink to Commenttry it: I sent email to 'stowesdodge@mailinator.com' - so send some email there and see what happens. I bet that you will have access to the earlier email as well as mine. Its meant for garbage, after all.
Permalink to CommentHow about this firefox plugin: http://bugmenot.mozdev.org/ ?
Permalink to CommentIf only there was a similar service for phone numbers - for those times you're torn over whether to give someone your number or not...
Permalink to CommentNote that if you're a Yahoo email member, you can do something similar. For instance, if your Yahoo email was sboyd@yahoo.com, and you were signing up for a new service called "kingair", you could create a new email on the fly called sboyd-kingair@yahoo.com. Any email you receive there would actually go into your yahoo email box, but if you start getting spam there, it's a simple matter to just turn that email address off (while still keeping your regular yahoo email address). I do this all the time...works pretty well.
Permalink to CommentAn interesting concept. Seems to be some details to be improved in the implementation. When I tested as you suggest, I sent some 'rich' text including text font attributes like bold, italic, color, as well as a simple table. Upon receipt, the following message was included and the text was dumbed down to plain text. There was no image data included. There is a midpoint between plain text and images/runtimes.
MAILINATOR MESSAGE
This message included non-text data - since no imaging technology exists that can
distinguish between happy-puppydog-images and naked-people-images; all images, scripts, and
other nasties have been stripped out (links are left in) - this may affect the email's appearance.
Also have a look at the fake email address" from www.myTrashMail.com
Its the same as mailinator with forward and delete functions added.
Permalink to CommentI understand the concept of mailinator, and agree it is useful for fighting spam. But as a website owner I have now had to block any mailinator addresses, and dont expect to be the last.
Although I run a very tight ship when it comes to email, newsletters, spam etc. Any mailinator causes me a headache when sending out a newsletter. As my website is run in my sparetime, I simply do not have the resource to filter addresses that are created on the fly.
As I say, i think its only a matter of time, before 100's of other websites follow me, in rejecting mailinator.com from any form of signup.
Good idea, but in the longterm it will fail.
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Mailinator from Big Blog Company Mailinator - anti-spam solution (one of many) or how to avoid giving out your email to strangers, online or off-line. Welcome to Mailinator(tm) - Its no signup, instant anti-spam service. Here is how it works: You are on the web,... [Read More]Tracked on August 9, 2004 06:34 AM
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