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"Dominic Wilkins" <> wrote in message news  PHwe.13367$...> What is one and how can I use it? > Sign up for a free hotmail, yahoo, excite, etc. email account (see their respective web pages.) Use that account for filling in web forms, email to people you don't want to have your real email address, etc. Here's some more VERY important reading: Email Address Munging WHY: http://www.private.org.il/harvest.html HOW: http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html MORE: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/spam-faq/ I'd suggest you add a ".invalid" to the end of your new fake email address where it's listed in your account settings. In Outlook Express, click on Tools, Accounts, then the News Tab. Select your news server, then click on Properties. On the General tab, go to the Email address and add the .invalid at the end of the address. |
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"Dominic Wilkins" <> wrote in message
news PHwe.13367$...> What is one and how can I use it? > > Besides the freebie webmail accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, etc.) which require no real authentication of who you are (i.e., they are free and anyone can signup for a freebie account), you could also use an e-mail alias. Some e-mail providers already have an alias function (although some are pretty stupid in that they just have you append some additional string onto your username). I use Sneakemail which has both free and paid accounts (the free accounts have smaller quotas but far more than I need when using an alias). Their site better describes why is e-mail aliasing rather than just simply e-mail forwarding. You could, for example, create a unique e-mail alias for each untrusted recipient so you'll know exactly who reamed you when you start getting spammed through that alias. Another type of disposable e-mail is a one-time use account, like at Trashmail.net, where you create an alias which can accept just one inbound e-mail and then becomes disabled or deleted. That way you can get, say, a confirmation e-mail on signing up for access to a site but they'll never be able to send you any e-mails thereafter to that address. Note that some sites or services will not permit you to use them if you provide a free webmail address, one of the free e-mail alias accounts, trashmail.net, or some other known disposable account. |
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"Vanguard" <> wrote in message news:8fKdnVoLEIhk_F7fRVn-... > "Dominic Wilkins" <> wrote in message > news PHwe.13367$...>> What is one and how can I use it? >> >> > > > Besides the freebie webmail accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, etc.) which > require no real authentication of who you are (i.e., they are free and > anyone can signup for a freebie account), you could also use an e-mail > alias. Some e-mail providers already have an alias function (although > some are pretty stupid in that they just have you append some additional > string onto your username). I use Sneakemail which has both free and paid > accounts (the free accounts have smaller quotas but far more than I need > when using an alias). Their site better describes why is e-mail aliasing > rather than just simply e-mail forwarding. You could, for example, create > a unique e-mail alias for each untrusted recipient so you'll know exactly > who reamed you when you start getting spammed through that alias. > > Another type of disposable e-mail is a one-time use account, like at > Trashmail.net, where you create an alias which can accept just one inbound > e-mail and then becomes disabled or deleted. That way you can get, say, a > confirmation e-mail on signing up for access to a site but they'll never > be able to send you any e-mails thereafter to that address. > ><snip> I'd never heard of Trashmail.net - that's pretty cool! When I have to provide an email address to some blasted site that I don't want sending me their trash, I'll often put their own email address back in - i.e., postmaster@whatever... or something like that <g> |
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"Dominic Wilkins" <> had
writtennews PHwe.13367$:> What is one and how can I use it? > > The "disposable" is one you can use temporarily such as signing up to a site you don't want to give your true email address to. Despammed.com allows you to forward mail to another address or store it briefly and reply. Other such email adress's only allow you to check mail but not much else. I use despammed on news groups and even then deviate slightly from giving a true address. That in itself eliminated spam from my real mail box. -- Barney __________________________ Wisdom from the sleeping dogs! |
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