Apr 17 2008
Disposable Email Addresses
I have an old practice of using a hotmail address for all my on-line registration activities, keeps my main email address clean of spam (even before we started Internet Defense Technology it worked pretty well, but did start getting spam though I thought I had never used it, problem handled since we got started).
New thing being talked about now is “Disposable Email Addresses” or DEA.
Some are paid, some are free.
Some are set up where you just get one free email address, use it for your registration, get the registration information and then “dispose” of the email address.
Some have you tell them what your real address is, then sign up for several fake addresses which will be forwarded to your real address. You use each fake address once for a sign-up and can watch to see which one eventually gets spammed (and then you know who sold your address) and can dispose of that address.
While this has been around for a little bit, I just recently heard of it. Looks pretty good, only issues I can think of is if you need to be able get back in to a registration or profile information and have to have that email address and you already disposed of it, would have a problem.
However, I really like the idea.
Update: Just saw a good list of these which I thought I would just link to rather than trying to re-do: http://www.techsnack.net
Original article on IDT Blog about email spam
This is so true… how many email addresses do I have… Not a clue at this point, as I have given so many up, solely due to the issue of Spam… Its amazing and totally abhorrent at the same time.