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Many web sites on the internet require registering with your email address in order to view content or download shareware. Some of these sites are entirely ethical and do not add your email address to mailing lists without your permission or they tell you up front that you will be added, but they bury that fact in their privacy policy somewhere. Some web sites are entirely unethical and not only add you to their lists, but sell your email address to other sites and/or to spammers. One way to combat this is to use one of the Privacy.net Stealth Email Addresses they have created specifically to reply back if the address is spammed with:
The addresses you can use are: me@privacy.net me0@privacy.net me1@privacy.net me2@privacy.net me3@privacy.net me4@privacy.net me5@privacy.net me6@privacy.net me7@privacy.net me8@privacy.net me9@privacy.net Of course, if the web site you are registering at requires you to reply to a confirmation email before you are truly registered, then this will not work, since you'll never receive the email. But . . . since this type of registration, known as "confirmed opt-in" is only practiced by ethical web sites and mailing lists, the question of trust is answered by the fact that they use "confirmed opt-in" registration. got feedback? by newview edited by Sarah |