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Easy Throw-Away Email Addresses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bug-me-not dept.

netbuzz writes, "A fellow teaching himself Seam has come up with a clever Web app called 10 Minute Mail. It gives you a valid e-mail address — instantly — for use in registering at Web sites. Ten minutes later (more if you ask), it's gone. You can read mail and reply to it from the page where you create the throw-away address. Limited utility, yes, but easy and free."

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  1. Vs. Mailinator by P(0)(!P(k)+P(k+1)) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was curious as to how TMM stacked up against mailinator, my anonymous email of choice; mailinator has a time-limit of several hours, and its interface is slightly more elegant.

  2. What's the point? by DoorFrame · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What's the point of having an email address that's only around for a few minutes when you could just use a single throwaway email address for all of your registration needs. It doesn't expire, but since you only use it for registrations, it doesn't matter how much spam/cruft it accumulates.

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  3. Banned by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thanks for the heads up slashdot - I've updated my forums' email ban list. It's joined the likes of mailinator.com and its alias domains (fakeinformation.com and sogetthis.com).

    Dan East

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