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October 17, 2003

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Mailinator: Temporary email
Posted by Grant

I just ran into this very useful (and free) service online: http://www.mailinator.com/ offers you a way to deal with annoying forums and software downloads that require you to provide an email address, then email you your log-in information. Most people have a hotmail account for this purpose, but Mailinator is cleaner, and smarter.

Just sign up for the forum (or whatever) with any mailinator.com email address (ex. joebob@mailinator.com), then go to http://www.mailinator.com/ , and sign in with the name you chose (ex. joebob). Mailinator will receive the email for you and hold on to it for a few hours so that you can get the log in info and get your download, or scan the forum for the support info you need. It's completely unsecure, so be careful what you use it for, but it certainly can come in handy.

Posted @ 11:42 AM by Grant | TrackBack

Comments

Have you looked into Spam Gourmet: a little bit more secure
http://www.spamgourmet.com/.

Posted by: Michael at October 17, 2003 12:13 PM

what's up with that -ator suffix, is that a new fashion now? :) not really ontopic, but if you are using office, a very nice addon is cloudmark. it does it's job VERY well.
http://www.cloudmark.com

Posted by: Claus Wahlers at October 17, 2003 01:05 PM

Temporary email is done best with http://www.myTrashmail.com

Its my choice for reducing my spam.

You try it once and see how easy it can be do reduce your spam

Posted by: Temporary Email at August 26, 2004 11:27 AM