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There are already web services to block disposable email domains. How long before analogous services for SMS become commonplace?

Shirley anyone posting in a forum uses a thow away email and fake name.

That's not my name, and more and more sites are using blacklist services to identify and reject throw-away e-mail domains, such as Block Disposable Email.

"I create a unique email address for each company I deal with, and each website I register on."

Does nobody of you morons know of mailinator.com?

Why on earth would someone create a mailaddress just to register to a website when mailinator with their gazillion aliases exists?

Just give them mythrowawaylogin@mailinator.com as email address, read it _once_ to click the confirmation link and forget it.

Reason 1: there are plenty of people using services like this - http://www.block-disposable-email.com/cms/
Reason 2: I may want to establish an ongoing relationship with a company (e.g. receive newsletters, etc) rather than just have a fire & forget initial contact
Reason 3: Having email coming to my inbox is more convenient than having to open a web site to view it. (I have a regexp-based email setup that allows me to just make up addresses that match a pattern, and I can add individual addresses to my spam filter if they become compromised, so it's actually easier than using mailinator).

Gmail doesn't count any periods in the user name

Once sites with a fetish for rejecting disposable addresses catch wind of this, they'll do the equivalent of str_replace('.', '', $address) on any address within the gmail.com or googlemail.com domain. I'd bet many already have.

Mailinator is among the first domains to get blocked.

And anyone who blocks them. They know they're a scummy site and REALLY want to be sending you spam.

That or a site that uses a service that blocks over 4,000 disposable e-mail address domains might just want a more persistent identifier to cut down on sockpuppet registrations.