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• If your ISP wants to eavesdrop on all your unencrypted mail, they can, even if they're not your email provider.
• If you use a POP or IMAP email provider, rather than direct delivery to your Unix box, they've got just as much ability to eavesdrop as a webmail provider does.
• I've got a wide range of different email providers, mostly web-based, for different applications with different privacy needs.
  • My main really-for-me personal email goes to an ISP where I run procmail and have a shell account and then use a PC-based mail client.
  • My DSL provider also has a shell and email account, which forwards to my main email, and almost never gets anything except admin and billing mail from the ISP.
  • Registration email for web sites usually goes to dodgeit.com for stuff that's really disposable.
  • I've got one webmail system that mostly gets people who might spam me, but might not spam me, and will be sending email in the future. Conference registrations are one example. It's a free account, so if there's too much spam I can chuck it.
  • Gmail gets one or two technical mailing lists. That's mainly because I wanted to play with gmail, and partly because I wanted to be able to comment on some of the lists from an email account that's not my work account or my long-term home account. And now I need a gmail account to use the Mountain View free wireless, so it's helpful there.
  • I read some Yahoogroups, so I've got a Yahoo email account.
  • Unfortunately, Google and Yahoo are trying to absorb Youtube and Flickr, and I was perfectly happy having logins there that were some variant on "anonymouscoward4". Gmail's login ID already absorbed my Orkut ID, which wasn't all that annoying because I'd stopped using Orkut by then.
  • I got a couple of AOL IM id's so I could play with an instant messaging appliance. The appliance turned out to be not very exciting, but it was worth a $20 experiment.
  • I've got other emails scattered here and there, like the places I run some mailing lists from, and dusty PCs scattered around various labs and friends' garage PCs and maybe a game system or two.
  • My cat used to have a Hotmail account, but when they decided you could only get one if you were over 13, she couldn't access it any more because she'd told them her real age instead of lying about it.
  • Online newspapers that want demographics usually get my zipcode as 90210, and my age as whatever year they give as an example, and a random gender. Unfortunately this sometimes means they show me banner ads for things in Beverly Hills instead of here, but what's an anonymous coward got to complain about?
    
  
  

If you don't already have a dedicated download manager (e.g. KGet, FlashGot), Sun's download manager is pretty good in my experience.

Also, you can use dodgeit.com for throwaway email, and bugmenot.com for an account that's already set up for you.

and dodgeit.com...

Receive only free email that automatically gets deleted every 7 days unless you make a donation, then you get to password protect and own the email address (as I do).

http://dodgeit.com/faq.html

- tokengeekgrrl

Dodgeit.com is free and allows to you to specify any email address@dodgeit.com and read the emails that arrive.
http://www.dodgeit.com/

I'm pretty excited about this because I had previously applied for Google AdSense twice, and was rejected both times. No reason was given. I guess maybe Google has a glut of ultra-targetted email inventory available thanks to their new Google Mail service.

I like how it does that "sign up with email" test. Too bad there's no good way of determining legitimacy without actually looking at them. Slashdot's emails are story summaries of the day (or in my experience, of two days ago). Besides, there's always dodgeit for signing up with throwaway email addresses.

You might be interested in DodgeIt. It's a site that provides unsecured, public, read-only email inboxes. To use it, simply send an email to somerandomphrase@dodgeit.com... and then go the the website, enter 'somerandomphrase' into the box, and see your message. No setup required.

The mail's kept for a short period of time, it's mostly anonymous (DodgeIt could theoretically record the IP address of incoming connections and track you that way), it's totally public, and no setup whatsoever is required. Very cool.

or even dodgeit.com

However, to get Stuffit Expander you have to give up your e-mail address and they will send you at least some spam

Why not try dodgeit and save your email address from spam??

Go ahead and dodge it quite useful for those spam hungry sites :) (and the owner is a /.er

Or, use something like dodgeit or mailinator

I would highly reccommend that you all check out http://www.dodgeit.com/ . They offer a free, no sign-up, recieve only, RSS enabled, no password email service. It is great for signing up for random things that require you to follow a link.

Don't miss the next Beta Weekend Event for a weekend of Guild Wars gaming. It's THIS weekend (starting January 7th) and you can get free beta keys at FilePlanet for an entire weekend of fun. Or not. Regardless, it's a good way to make up your mind, and I suppose the only "cost" is a disposable e-mail address for the sign-up! :-)

Personally, I have ordered the pre-order package for a key that will be good for all BWE's and it's a good tip if you end up liking the game, since it's not certain they'll give away keys for free next time.

These days I've got an account on Fastmail.fm, which is a really well-run free (with optional paid upgrades) mail system, and I mostly use dodgeit.com for more disposable website registrations and such.

For example, this is my current Yahoo messenger avatar:
http://dodgeit.com/temp/avatar.gif

I spend about 9 hrs a day in front of a computer, anything that makes it slightly more enjoyable is more than welcome.

Also, it is fun to get messages like:
Dude, WTF is a horse doing in your office?

One more thing, my wife uses these things too. Any technology that passes "the wife test" is indistinguishable from magic.

I've used dodgeit for a number of online newspaper registrations and such. The two problems I run into are that many of them don't let more than one person use a given address (e.g. nytimes@dodgeit.com is taken already), and many newspapers use realcities.com to handle their registration, so it's easiest to use a consistent address for them.

By simply not signing up for every random site you see and possibly using sites like DodgeIt to prevent your normal email from being spammed, you have a high chance of staying clean. Besides, many spam filters are getting good at keeping your inbox clean; I particularly like the one on Thunderbird.

It's not just the fact that Michael Eisner of Disney did not want Disney to distribute the film. Fahrenheit 9/11 won the highest prize, the Palm D'Or, at the recent Cannes competition! It is only the second documentary in history to do so. The film received the longest standing ovation in the history of the Cannes festival!

This story in Fahrenheit 9/11 is relevant to Slashdot because the situation is far worse than Michael Moore says. I put together links to 2 other movies and 35 books that say there is an extremely serious problem: Unprecedented Corruption: A guide to conflict of interest in the U.S. government. Slashdotted? Try:
http://www.hevanet.com/peace/usgovcorruption.htm. Michael Moore is reporting things EVERY Slashdot reader and every person in the world needs to know. It they get their way, you WILL become poorer.

People like the movie because they like the movie! Fahrenheit 9/11 is selling out everywhere. Today in the Sports [!] section of the Kansas City Star is an example. The writer, Jason Whitlock, says:

"Fahrenheit is the most powerful movie I've ever seen. Not even Moore's heavy-handed, pro-Democrat slant could undermine his indictment of Bush's reaction to 9/11. The movie appears to have struck a chord with American moviegoers. I spent all Friday afternoon and evening driving from North Carolina theater to North Carolina theater trying to see the movie. The showings were all sold out. I snagged one of the last tickets to a mid-day Saturday showing."

Judging from the stories, other reactions in the U.S. are even more enthusiastic than this. A theater with 10 screens in Portland, Oregon scheduled 18 showings for today, Sunday, June 27, 2004, in reaction to the movie's popularity on Friday and Saturday.

(Reading the Kansas City Star commentary, 'Fahrenheit' powerful, persuasive, requires free registration. Be wary, the company says it will send you email, so you might give a trash email address, or use a free trash email address at Mailinator.com or DodgeIt.com. Judging from the registration information, if you give a real postal mail address, they may send you unwanted mail, also.)

The movie is breaking all-time theater records all over the United States.

For those of you concerned about the TypeKey account required to download MT3.0, why not use this handy Dodgeit email account?

I actually belong to an email list that gets sent to dodgeit, that I consume with an RSS reader that then sends me an email.

So I have:
list -> email -> rss -> email -> me

Why all the hoops? Control. I can end the subscription any time I want and never ever get spammed because I was once a member of the list.

Sign up for a ton of Hotmail accounts

Or use DodgeIt.com -- free email, no signup, no security... great for registration forms etc.

If you can setup and read RSS feeds, you could always try dodgeit...