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Originally Posted by gluteus maximus
People are sometimes worried about giving out their e-mail address to web sites that require registration, in case they end up on spam mail lists, or because their address may identify them too easily. There are many ways of getting round this problem - here are three.
- www.fakenamegenerator.com will construct a fake identity for you with a few mouse clicks, and also provides a temporary e-mail address that you can use to register for sites that make you click on a confirmation message. www.mailinator.com gives you similar short term (i.e. a few hours' duration) addresses.
- www.spamgourmet.com allows you an unlimited number of unique addresses, so you can use a different one for every site you use. If one of these addresses starts getting spammed, it will automatically self-destruct - and you'll know who sold your address to the spammers. It's a bit fiddly to set up, but it needs patience rather than expertise, and once you've got it going, all you have to do is white-list new trusted senders. Your incoming messages are forwarded to your normal e-mail address.
- www.gmx.com is quite similar to Google mail, except that they don't read your messages in order to show you targeted adverts. You get up to ten addresses of your choice, at a variety of country domains: com, co.uk, fr, it - and they've just added ph, pt, com.my and sg. On the newer additions, you can get pretty well any address you want. (A quick check shows that jesus(at)gmx.sg is available, although god(at)gmx.sg "contains invalid characters".) If one of your addresses starts getting spammed, you can delete it and choose another. You can use web, POP or IMAP access for this service, and/or get it to forward your mail to your normal e-mail address.
All of these services are free, and none of them require you to prove your identity, although they will of course log the IP address of your computer. As usual: read the instructions. YMMV.
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Hi gm
Thank you for these useful links
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