NY Tel
Premium
join:2004-04-09
Smithtown, NY
 ·VOIPo
| Dispose this...
I use that feature with my Verizon FiOS account.
You can set up and "take down" additional e-mail addresses at will using the web interface.
While this is new to Earthlink, Yahoo has been offering it for a while as well as Verizon. By the way, I don't use my Verizon account for real mail, that is reserved for GMAIL. |
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newview
Ex .. Ex .. Exactly
Premium
join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD | DSLR has been offering this for some time
I *think* temporary email address setup has been available here at DSLR for over a year.
I absolutely LOVE the ability to add temporary email addresses . . . and delete them at will.
Take THAT, spammers. |
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Nymostwanted
Who Cares?
Premium
join:2004-06-25
New York, NY | Very Cool
Good way to fight spam, and input e-mail address into questionable locations.
By the way, you guys forgot to add customer after Earthlink.
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iwantfastpah
join:2005-04-27
1 edit |  use spamgourmet!
All these services are a joke. Use spamgourmet »www.spamgourmet.org
Very simple to use. Say you make a name called joker as an example and you wanted to sign up for some site you dont trust. Say freecrap.com you specify how many emails you want to recieve from that site and name it what you want such as freecrap.3.joker@spamgourmet.com that will forward to your real email address and send only 3 emails from them. If you want more you can specifiy up to 20 or login to spamgourmet and set the address as an exclusive sender by searching it.
Just read their FAQ. They have many other domains avaliable too. Give it a try and you will see how bad the other services are compared to this and sg is free!! |
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TScheisskopf
World News Trust
join:2005-02-13
Belvidere, NJ | Spam? What is this thing you call "Spam"?
I use Spamato. |
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click_310
Eat my shorts
join:2002-12-06
Savannah, GA | reply to newview
Re: DSLR has been offering this for some time
err where? |
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Varlik
Without Honor You Will Never Be Free
Premium
join:2002-01-06
Anderson, SC
| He's talking about DSL Reports (DSLR aka BBR) mail service which open years ago but has long since been closed to anyone else from joining.
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c0de
join:2004-10-14
Richmond, VA
| good marketing on an ever existing system
this is silly, email aliases have been around forever, you can set up an alias for the same mailbox with any smtp server, and your service provider should offer this anyways, its not like it consumes resources if your use a prefix (ie spam.username@domain.com). |
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click_310
Eat my shorts
join:2002-12-06
Savannah, GA | reply to Varlik
Re: DSLR has been offering this for some time
oooh the one thats closed ---> »img109.imageshack.us/img109/6986···lzw4.jpg |
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Varlik
Without Honor You Will Never Be Free
Premium
join:2002-01-06
Anderson, SC | reply to newview
Yes thats the one. Folks in it sometimes forget that it's closed to new members. |
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newview
Ex .. Ex .. Exactly
Premium
join:2001-10-01
Parsonsburg, MD | Sorry, you're right . . . I forgot that it's still in "beta" and closed to new members.
Maybe now is the time to open it up to all.
Whattaya' think Justin?
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iwantfastpah
join:2005-04-27 | reply to c0de
Re: good marketing on an ever existing system
If they really wanted to spam you though not hard to realize what your direct email address is doing that so thats not overly useful |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | reply to c0de
Hell, I'd be happy if Earthlink could get its real email addresses to work right...
Or maybe this is their new marketing tagline: "Earthlink, the disposable ISP".
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
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Re: Dispose this...
said by NY Tel  :I use that feature with my Verizon FiOS account. You can set up and "take down" additional e-mail addresses at will using the web interface. While this is new to Earthlink, Yahoo has been offering it for a while as well as Verizon. By the way, I don't use my Verizon account for real mail, that is reserved for GMAIL. Actually, Yahoo! Mail Plus has offered "AddressGuard" for at least two years now. A Yahoo! user can create up to 500 (not just 5) disposable email addresses. The form is <basename-tag@yahoo.com>. The "Base Name" is created when setting up AddressGuard, and does not have to have any relation to your Yahoo! user name. The "Tag" part is set up when you create the email address. There is no way for a spammer to guess your Yahoo! email address, and they can't just spam the base name, because that is not an email address.
It is not available on the free Yahoo! Mail accounts, though; and, apparently, not on the Yahoo! Mail accounts outside of the U.S. It is available on AT&T Yahoo! HSI accounts, and, presumably, the other co-branded ISP Yahoo! accounts; such as Rogers and Verizon.
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AnonMe
@verizon.net | Jetable
Jetable will redirect mail to your real email address, free and has a firefox extension available for it. I use it all the time. |
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