Toss Away E-mail Addresses
November 26th, 2006These throwaway e-mail addresses are nothing new. Basically, these tools allow you to create e-mail addresses for those times when you need to sign up for something in order to get something, but don’t want to provide your real e-mail address (for obvious reasons).
I’ve been a fan of Dodgeit for a long time because I can get the e-mails in my aggregator. Today, said aggregator sent me to two new-to-me throwaway e-mail tools.
+ Spamhole - “SpamhOle.com allows you to create a temporary email address; nameyoupick@spamhole.com. For the number of hours that you choose, all email to nameyoupick@spamhole.com address is automatically forwarded to your regular email address. After time is up, any new mail that comes to your spamhole address is automatically deleted. This way, you never have to give your email address out when you sign up for stuff on the internet. You can create a spamhole address, sign up for stuff on the internet, and not have to worry about your mailbox becoming a target for spammers”
+ 10 Minute Mail - “you will be given a temporary e-mail address. Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on the web page. You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them. The e-mail address will expire after 10 minutes. Why would you use this? Maybe you want to sign up for a site which requires that you provide an e-mail address to send a validation e-mail to. And maybe you don’t want to give up your real e-mail address and end up on a bunch of spam lists. This is nice and disposable.”
I like certain qualities from each. Spamhole allows the e-mail from their addresses to get forwarded to my real e-mail. Then, the address dies. Lovely. 10 Minute Mail allows me to reply from the temp e-mail address. And of course, only dodgeit sends the info via RSS.
The winner, IMO, will be the tool that does all three. 