NY Tel
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join:2004-04-09
Smithtown, NY
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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. |
NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
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| 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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Norman
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