Wednesday - July 30, 2003

Mailinator

A throwaway email address is useful. It is a slight hassle to sign up for, but well worth the amount of time it can save you by intercepting spam that would otherwise be going to your legitimate address.

I heard about Mailinator from Simon Willison's blog. You don't need to sign up for it. Just specify AnyAddress@mailinator.com and it will work. If you want to check the email, go to Mailinator's website and type in whatever fake address you put up. Pretty cool.

12:16 PST
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Posted by Shigeru at Jul 30, 2003 21:11 PST | #1

For a more sophisticated, more secure deal than that one, try Spam Gourmet. You create the email address on the fly conforming to a certain specification, and it's set up to forward them to another account. After a specified number of emails have come into that address, it treats the rest as spam and EATS them. Very cool idea.

-- Virtual Beacon, Scissus at Solidus --

Posted by Virtual Beacon at Aug 29, 2003 05:54 PST | http://www.fallenearth.org/blogs/knutaf/ | #2

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