27th Mar 2007
Disposable email addresses
If you like signing up to Internet based services, like me, you must know the risk you’re taking by submitting your email address over and over. Here are a few services you might appreciate:
- Guerrilla Mail – creates temporary Email addresses that last for 15 minutes and then go silently into the night. It’s entirely web based and requires no registration. You just hit a button and the system generates a new Email address for you to use.
- Spam Gourmet – allows you to create an account which hides your real Email address. If you need to use a temporary address, you provide someword.x.user@spamgourmet.com where ‘someword‘ is a random word you haven’t used before and ‘X’ is the number of emails to accept before stopping the forwarding to your box. When you need a new address, just change ‘someword‘ and decide what X should be. ‘user’ is your user name (requires registration).
If you need more options, try reading this article, about 8 more disposable Email services.
This is a great example of the innovative vs. lookalike startups I was referring to in my last two posts.
And if you trust the service you’re signing up to, give them your real address. These guys are working hard to bring us on board and deserve some slack.
I use spam.la.
They are excellent and don’t require registration at all.