Can Temporary Email Addresses Stop Spam?

chris is no longer a “geek” with that pimpin hat! :O

I made the mistake of dating my email address…
——2003.

FIRST COMMENT!!!!!

lol ive had my email since 2001 :)

thanks for the link chris!!!!!

Lol I know some people doing that too… Lol.

Great advice!

Just one comment - Chris detests software that removes ad banners. However, in the case of Coldplay, you receive that free album by them being able to deliver those “ads” to your inbox. It’s all or nothing - if you follow his Coldplay approach, than software to remove ad banners should be allowed as well.

until i moved to gmail for my email i had an email address with aol since late 90s…and im 16 LOL

WHAT! How does that work?

Yeah I have always had two names for me Mushy2000/Mushy2008 tons of history on google with that search :-) anyway… I have Mushy2008 because I graduate this year from highschool once i actually knew what my Grad year was… once 2008 passes i’m not sure which email I will use.

Well aol have been around for years. i had aol with my old powermac 5500 performa and i had an email address with them which i used all the way up until the release of gmail

I used to get at least 50 spam a day, but once I started using gmail, I honestly have not received a single spam. I give out a single email which then is redirected to another email adress(of the same service) which then I receive in my normal inbox. This way I receive not only the emails I want, but i have control over that email address(i.e I can delete it any time and still keep my original gmail email address and create another one that redirects).

I’ve love this setup and always will because it saves me time.

if people don’t believe Chris is always in his email, check live.pirillo.com and you’ll see.

i guess with everything in the world being tech related and disposable, i guess merging the two would happen. like with Nine Inch Nails, they do the same thing with the email for the single download but i can say that i haven’t gotten any email from them that i didn’t ask for. but i think it’s a good idea for stuff like that.

Oh wow, that’s really convenient. I think it could help getting spam a little less, but I don’t think it will ever stop.

I mean, it’s so amazing big. You need to see the amount of spam I get every day: about 250 spam e-mails. Happily, they’re all filtered out by the wonderful Gmail spam filter, so I don’t need to take care of it by my own. Relaxed!

So yeah.

I normally create multiple accounts of Email, One for each individual need, I have my main one for Family only, One for Friends only, One as a back up of info I want to keep in case something happens to my computer, I have one for work (this includes for my resume), and I have one specific for uncertainty of spam, so it’s my spam filter if you will. if I meet a new friend Online, I give them that email until I trust them more and be like “oh, made a new account, I’m not using this one anymore, here’s my new email” (I’ve had “friends” that would just send me spam.) using Yahoo, I can “block” specific address so causes less of a hassle, once a year I actually change my spam email address, so I don’t have to hassle with the **** that fills the old one up anymore. but hey, It’s useful for me at least. comes in handy, no real information is given out, completely fake name and info and everything.

I don’t use spam filters in case I miss something important.

I check my e-m listing in the Inbox & delete by the keyboard delete.

It only takes a few seconds & then I empty the deleted folder

My solution to dealing with SPAM is to simply have multiple e-mail address that I only check once a day. Thanks to Microsoft, Yahoo, and Gmail, this is so easy. I have 5 different Microsoft e-mail addresses (MSN, Hotmail, Office Live, and Live) and I only really use one as my primary address.

You probably thinking that it stinks to have to check 7 seven different e-mail addresses? No not really. Once again, Microsoft has made it easy. Go to http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview and give Windows Live Mail a try. It is a desktop e-mail program that works basically the same way that Microsoft Outlook Express. It allows you to configure ALL of your Microsoft backed e-mail address and basically check all of them at the same time. Great program. Mac users like me are kinda out of luck but that problem is fixed by using Boot Camp, Parallels or VMware Fusion. I personally use VMware Fusion.

Hey Chris!

Temporary e-mail addresses are absolutely fantastic. I’m sure you’ve heard of BugMeNot (bugmenot.com). Well, BugMeNot also has a temporary e-mail service that I’ve been using for a while.

This blog post has quite a few great pointers about internet security. One of the best ways to conceal and protect your identity is to either create a secondary e-mail account or create a temporary inbox. Most likely, you’re better off creating a temporary inbox; it takes less time to create, and is easier to maintain.

Thanks for the awesome post; I really enjoyed it.

Yours sincerely,

J.T.

well yes maybe it can stop. if you have work and you have your own work email and dosnt like to have spam in their inboxes then dont use your buisness email. and if you have your own personal email dont use it either. create another email for your spam. when you want to sign up for something thats not important, use the spam email. if you have something important on a website that you need to sign up, use your personal email. if theirs something important for your buisness on a website and you need to sign up for it, use your buisness. etc. if on your personal or buisness emails have spam, use yahoo mail or use a spam blocker if your email provider has one. if not, you may google “mail spam blocker” and use the appropiate application. i also get 10 spam mail every hour. i know it sucks. and it relly pisses me off when some spam messages get through the yahoo mail spam filter and instead of going to the spam folder, it goes to my inbox. if you dont like yahoo, you may use hotmail, gmail, aol, .mac and other email providers i hav’nt heard of.

Ya i dont really get alot of E-mail but i do get spam and i think that is a GREAT SITE because i tried it yesterday is is sooo easy all you half to do is just like type it in

Later :-)

I’ve been using http://spambox.us for years now. This is hardly a new practice.

Thanks For The Tip , My old Yahoo account constantly was being flooded with spam after spam after spam. When i Finally Gave up and switched to my gmail account i have since beta and never used i have not gotton spammd once :)

I have the last name dotorg (as oposed to Chris’s dotcom), and use Google Apps to host the email on it. It is just like Gmail, but with my own name. Just go to google com a (an “/a” in the end) to sign up. My last name is slabaugh

I always use free online email. i finder i generally don’t get much spam for the first few months on these survives.

As for changing your email ever few months that just is not practical to me. i mean over time you have people that get to know you though your email and to have to get your new email out to people you want to have it would be difficult.

I’ve set up a filter within Gmail that removes all spam, ( I may have even read about this here, so if this is a repeat, please forgive me because I’m old.) The filter has the words IS:SPAM and is set up to skip the inbox and then delete. Also within Gmail (again, bear with me, I’m old don’t you know) whenever I give out my Gmail email address I add the site name to my return address. So if I visit the Ford Motor Co. website and sign up for their monthly newsletter, my return address would be mike.sirianno+fmc@gmail.com. If any spam comes to me with that address, I’ll know that Ford sold my address. I also take advantage of Dodgit (www.dodgit.com). There you can set up a legitimate email address, like Ihatespam@dodgit.com and when you need to supply an email address, you give this one. Dodgit holds all email for 30 days then deletes them. (I just checked my Dodgit email and it appears the website is down, don’t know if this is temporary or what.)

TemporaryInbox is a fantastic idea in my opinion. It seems great if you need to get a quick response, get an activation or confirmation e-mail or for just giving out your e-mail in public.

I am certainly going to be using TemporaryInbox in future! Thanks Chris!

I used to get so much spam on yahoo but if you go to yahoo settings you can make spam you to the trash and it really works i have no more spam anymore!

i use a fake email adress to block out spam, i created “@hotmail.co.uk” and whenevr i sign up for something on the net like a video site or modding site, i use that email. and if they ask you to cofirm it all it takes is a short login and go to your latest mail. had this fake email for 4 years now and it’s scary how my inbox is sitting at 1117 new mails. i do however use my real email on sites i want to recieve mails.(such as this =P)

gmail really does keep the spam to a minimum….if something ever squeaks by the spam filter they have up, all I have to do is click “report as spam,” and anything else that email address would ever send ends up automatically in the spam folder. not to mention the fact that I can merge all my email account into my gmail, and manage it all from there (work, personal, and school).

i have two email accounts. a yahoo one and a gmail. i used yahoomail as my personal email address until a couple of years ago when gmail started. my two reasons for switching to gmail is 1. too much spam on my yahoo account. 2. gmail offers free POP3 email which is convenient for accessing emails from my mobile phone. whenever i subscribe to less important websites like forums, subscriptions, etc. i’d use yahoo which is the mailbox i freely give out for these registrations. but for more important registrations like ebay, paypal, twitter etc. i use my gmail account to keep these emails for safekeeping. currently, spammers can spam away on my old yahoo account unknowingly that i have a different mailbox that i open.

I have cut down the amount of spam I received recently when I switched my email account to a new gmail one and left the old one to collect spam. Now if I am not sure about a site, I send the email to my old account and gmail either forwards me the message or it gets caught in the spam filter, saving me the hassle of dealing with repeated emails from them.
Granted I am a person who doesn’t use email as much as others for business contacts, etc. I tend to only hand my email out to a select amount of people, not because I am scared but because the rest of the people have no need for my email.
Now matter how you do it, spam isn’t going away anytime soon sadly

When it comes to spam, I have seen my fair share. Even though I have email settings setup for spam blocking it never fails those little things always seem to some how get by one or two. On the topic of temporary email there is a site called mailinator.com, you can put whateveryouwant@mailinator.com and then go to the site and check that inbox. I like that site never really had much of a problem with it. I am going to try that site Chris Pirillo said in the video. Thanks again for the video.

Spam isnt fun
like i get alot of it
Yahoo doesnt do the best job of filtering it
But it doesnt really bother me its just a click or a tap on my iphone and its gone

For me the solution is simple: GMail! GMail has a built in spam filter that needs absolutely zero configuration. Over the three years I’ve used it, I have had only 6 messages mistakenly marked spam and about the same number of messages that were mistakenly let past the spam filter. To put this into perspective, I have 1450 emails in my inbox now and that doesn’t count all the mail I have deleted.

Go Google!

yeah multiple e-mails are good idea but what if you get a important e-mail and you forget in which you got it, although if it is so important you could always make a special folder for it or save it to your desktop, is gmail that good?, i heard that google was spying on you, anyway which do you guys think is the best mail client?

I think certainly temporary email addresses can stop spam. Cause you are constantly changing it. But is it really worth it having to setup up a new email addresses each time. And do you want to always having to go to the hassle of telling all of your friends what the new email address is? I think it is much easier to press the delete key than rather making up new email addresses all the time. But that is just me.

Another good temporary email place is 10minutemail.com You can have it for 10 minutes or keep extending the time. I used to use msn but now i get to much spam there, I mean tons so, its no longer my main account. Right now im using yahoo but it’s really slow and laggy when trying to open my inbox. So hopefully ubuntu supports thunderbird really wanna try it out.

I have multiple emails one at yahoo for spam or for
registering on sites or for those things that ask for your email
and on there i have at least 50000 spam
For family i use Gmail and i never get spam there
and if i do good thing for those gmail filters

And i did not know about that temporary email
thanks for letting me know about that

I know that I am very afraid of letting my email get out to the public. I currently have a hotmail account and it was spam free for about 6 months and then after that i stated receiving spam left and right. I became fed up with hotmail, so i then created a gmail account, which has proven to be very nice. i havent had a problem with spam since ive had it.

I create a few accounts just for those sites that require your e-mail but not sure that you trust. Other then that I mostly use my yahoo mail account. I get around 50 spam e-mails a day but they mostly go into the spam folder. Only a few get past my filters.However it is still pretty troublesome having to go through all the spam. I probably just need to make better filters.

Temporary email address can indeed lower the amount of spam that you receive. For those of you who don’t know sharing your email in a public place is not good at all. Hackers can easily track your email info. That wouldn’t be good for you. So remember, always keep your email private unless you know the site very good and trust it. Antivirus spam prevention also helps alot.

If you don’t want to get emails like these that it is a very! good idea, especially when you are signing up for things like bands that come with automated updates like every week. i would suggest you definitely give these email addresses a go!

But for me ill stick with my permanent one i don’t mind getting updates and album offers and things like that as long as there not really frequent. But i still think this is a great idea

Thanks for informing me Chris!

Yeah, what I suggest is that you have one e-mail address that is reserved for reputable newsletters, close friends, etc and one e-mail for signing up for things. There is also a service I know of called BugMeNot.com that’s very similar to what Chris described. It’s worked for me in the past. In an online form you just type “whateveryouwant@bugmenot.com,” “whateveryouwant” being anything at all. Then you just visit the site, bugmenot.com, hit the Check Mail button, and type in your “whateveryouwant” name. No images are displayed but you can click any links in the message. Pretty cool, eh.

I hate spam with a passion. From my experience, spam is more evident in a free e-maoil service such as hotmail or excite. I have so much Spam in my hotmail account that is just a pain to check e-mail. I admitt I have nver tried a spam filter or bought/downloaded any software that would stop spam. I have went the way for paying for e-mail service that eliminates spam. So far, in about a year or so, I have not had any spam, even when I sign up for websites that require e-mail addresses. I am thouroughly impressed with .mac mail. I give it a 5 out of 5 star rating for spam filtering.

I’ve never heard of this temporaryemail thing. I have my primary gmail account that i use on a regular basis and maybe just gets some newsletters that i know i’ve signed up for but, i use my old yahoo account as my “spam account” so when i go into it every so often to accept an activation email of sorts i’ll see around 600 messages in the inbox bc for so many years i’ve just been signing up to so many things either just to try it out, or just to download the new version of itunes which is kind of annoying. Ok thanks chris.

I would say no,because even though they have all these spam protection things in the E-mail’s.They claim to stop it but when you go check your inbox or the junk mail box there’s still spam.

The best thing to is delete and get rid of them.Other than that it can’t actually be stopped for ever.I will admit it does stop some but not all.

Gmail is very good for keeping spam out. It is a lot better than GRM (southern IA\Missouri). Of all the time I have had Gmail I have had 1 or 2 pieces of spam.

gmail rocks

Hey Chris.

I have both a Hotmail, as well as a Gmail account. Now, as most people have noted, Gmail is quite good at keeping spam out. Actually, let me say that I have never received one piece of spam on Gmail. Although it might be thanks to their system, my own means of interaction with the web might be at the source as well. Let me backtrack a bit here:

I have two emails. One regular, standard one, which I use more freely. It is one I am not afraid to give away because in all honesty, I kinda use it as a temporary email. The only other use is with MSN Messenger. As you are aware, IMs are all too importantly delicious. When you can connect to the world and speak with people online, its fantastic and easy. For this, I do not think I will abandon my hotmail account anytime soon. As for my other account, it was made to be formal. I am not entirely afraid of giving this out, but I chose who I give it to. If I’m applying for a job, I will use the second email. With this two email system, I definitely feel a lot more comfortable. Although my hotmail collects so much spam, I do not mind, because I pretty much never use that account for anything important.

Anyways, thanks for talking about this. I didn’t even know about temporary emails until I read this post. Great stuff Chris!

They definitely can and I used to use dodgit.com for such purposes until they got incredibly slow.

As much as a I hate to say it, my AOL e-mail account prevents nearly 95% of the spam sent to me from entering my inbox… What can I say?

I use Dodgeit’s temp email and it is a very good service. Just remember that some services do delete after a day or so. Some even extend it to 7 days.

Sounds like a great idea, the problem as i see and i am intending to try this idea, spam is the plague of the world and it must go away!

I always use bugmenot, for me it’s like my actual email adress, I always use the same one and check it daily, but I don’t have to worry about deleting anything because everything is done automatically.

Bugmenot.com

Keep it real.

-SharpY

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the link. I just bookmarked “Temporary Inbox”. I wish I had known about that site about five years ago! :OP

I’ve had a Gmail account for about two years now and I always try to be cautious about who I give my e-mail address away to.

That said, my SPAM folder now contains 1364 messages! Ugh.

SPAM in itself is an interesting concept. Essentially you have a lot of people running around trying to make a quick dollar by sending out mass e-mails to those who never requested it. Quite honestly, I bet only about 1% of these people make any money at all.

In my opinion, a person who is using e-mail marketing should ONLY send e-mails to double opt-in (confirmed) subscribers. Actually, even those who use the double opt-in method find it difficult to get their subscribers to open their newsletters. Just imagine how much trouble the spammers must have!

Sadly, many of these spammers are probably more than capable of starting a legitimate online business. Unfortunately, they have decided to go the SPAM route instead.

In other words, what these people do is not only a disservice to us — but it is a disservice to themselves. (Too bad they seem to be so unaware of this).

Thanks again,
James Gia

I too use multiple email address’(1 for legit communications and Yahoo for spam/misc, plus one Gmail account). I have heard of the Temporary addresses sites(even one that the email address disappears in 10 minutes)

btw, anyone remeber when Net Zero had a service called private phone, it was a free way for you to get a phone # that only accepted voicemail and you could use as a dummy # for whatever.

I honestly believe that that spam can be controlled, but not stop.

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aim email!! lol

I use one email for singing up for things and one just for talking to friends, i think it works great this way.

I wish I had a solution that worked flawlessly but I don’t. I get hundreds of emails a day, sent to various email accounts (for each domain I service) it’s a never-ending saga of checking, deleting, and pulling hair just to sift through the email that I DO WANT!

Consider an Autoresponder?

I have considered setting up my email to forward to an autoresponder, which delivers a message to those who use it — stating my REAL email address and how they can contact me. That way, at least it would eliminate the BOTS from being able to send mail directly to my real email address. However, it wouldn’t take care of the human spammers that make it their life’s work to send Viagra emails to every person on the planet.

SpamArrest Isn’t the Solution!

I have a SpamArrest.com account too but that’s a real pain as well because I still have to check the mail that comes into that box and OK or NAY it for delivery. So it defeats the purpose of having it, IMO.

Eudora Helps a Little

I use Eudora as my email client and I like the idea that I can set up filters, which does help once the filter is in place. But again — you have to take the time to set up a filter!

I really AM up in arms on how to squelch the tons of junk mail/spam that I get on a daily basis. And sadly, I don’t see the problem EVER going away. I just see it as getting worse as the time goes on. The question is, can I outsmart the spammers? :)

All good things,
Bonnie Gean

P.S. I think I’ll try your TemporaryInBox solution.

Chris i have to tell i join a nationsurvey program on the net and has i typed in my email address i have being get a lot of spam but the problem i am having is that if unsubscribe for the service i wouldn’t get my Sony PSP…Oh well i have to be stuck with this flood of spams. Anyways thanks for reminding me that should be careful of how i submit my email to or for something.

I’ve been diverting spam for years as well as finding out about where it’s come from. Buy a domain name which only costs a couple of quid per year, and set-up the catch-all address to go to your normal e-mail address. Then when you give a new site your e-address, make-up one that’ll remind you of that site - e.g. Buy the domain “yoursurname.co.uk” and then blog here using chrispirillo@yoursurname.co.uk. If you get any mail turn up, you’ll know exactly where they got it from! Also, you can handle that as spam or not. This is great when “good” sites sell up or leachers just pick-up you address off a public page. It also freaks-out telesales guys when you quote back their own company name!

I’m probably going to come off sounding like a complete rube, but I’ve always been told that the only stupid question is the one you don’t bother to ask. So hear it is…. Chris mentioned an Exchange account. This is the first time I’ve heard the term in conjunction with email so I thought to ask, what might that be?

Thanks in advance.

C.S.M

i don’t like spam the food or the emails spam just turned 30. yes that’s right we lived with spam for 30 years now. no way to stop it , so no there is no way to stop spam

I have gmail, yahoo, and hotmail accounts. I’m subscribed to hotmail for quite a long time now like since mid 90’s when that email service first got out. It was not own by MS that time of course. Hotmail has gone a long way. I dont get spam/junk emails nowadays at least not that much. I can increase the spam level but i don’t want to filter out valid emails as what usually happens if you set it to high. I usually create email account for subscribing or for any internet ads that requires email. I haven’t used that anymore since hotmail really handles all those spam for me.

Also, the other reason why I’m stcking it out with hotmail, it’s very convenient coz I can use my outlook express. I’m still don’t know if i can use yahoo. I’m sure as soon as the MicroHoo gets to materialize, yahoo will get more integrated with MS email clients.

I get spam all the time- becaus ei used it on Yahoo answers once! It is alsways about a guy dying on eecember 26th 2003 and leaving 12.5million dollars to his realitives- but it turns out there are all dead aswell so now i get it? come on scam or what. I also get these messages saying about a loan offer?
Got to go now bye.

I would say no,because even though they have all these spam protection things in the E-mail’s.They claim to stop it but when you go check your inbox or the junk mail box there’s still spam.

The best thing to is delete and get rid of them.Other than that it can’t actually be stopped for ever.I will admit it does stop some but not all.

I remember the time when spam emails are an absolute menace. It’s like 95% of whats in my inbox are spams. And during those time, there was a question of privacy. MS/Yahoo/Google do not delete the emails even though you have actually trashed them out. there’s a certain period before they actually remove them. so what I did was I setup my own exchange server from home. I grabbed a free domain as well as DNS from dyndns.org. I configured my router to forward SMTP to this server. I had a few hiccups coz some cable internet providers like RCN do not allow this if you have a residential account. However, i was able to workaround that by setting up a relay mail server from a friend. So i was happy. I can create as much email account as I wish and remove it at my whim. Microsoft Exchange offer intelligent spam filtering for free that you can configure for your exchange. It works sweet. I have total control of my email server. I moved to another house and comcast was awesome coz they dont seem to care about such traffic. I even have port 80 opened as well. They will tell you though it’s not allowed to setup a web server or email server or whatever internet server. But i did anyway. They don’t care coz I’m sure they know based on traffic that’s coming in to my house. Until we have to do some home cost cutting. I had to shut down all my servers as they are not really money-making activities. It’s just a hubby for me. Now, hotmail works just fine. I have to reconfigure all my email accounts for all my internet retailers, auto-payments for my bills as they require email to login, and change on all forums that I joined. They are not all done. I still get to find some that I haven’t changed. But I’m getting there. I love hotmail.

i use dodgeit.com all you have to do i try (what ever)@dodgeit.com and go to dodgeit.com and type what ever you did before and you have all the emails that were sent there. but i would not use it for important info and dont use the password you use for any thing when using it.

Spam will be here until the end of time. Nothing can stay ahead of the spammers. Its the same way with steroids in baseball. No matter what they do, the steroids will always be ahead of the game.

Fellow humans,

I just signed up with Temporary Inbox.

I just wanted to let everyone know, however, that the site isn’t very secure. (These aren’t my words, these are the words of the website itself!)

Basically, if anyone knows your username — they can access your e-mail address because Temporary Inbox does not give you a password.

What this means for you is that you need to DELETE ANY SENSITIVE E-MAILS IMMEDIATELY!

Now granted, the user names that Temporary Inbox generates are incredibly random and there’s no way that anyone could ever guess them…. but it’s better to be safe than sorry.

(By the way, if you are using Temporary Inbox from a public computer than you will DEFINITELY want to delete sensitive e-mails from your inbox so that the next person to use the machine won’t stumble upon your private information).

Additionally, because this service is web-based and is not password protected, I have some concern that the owners of Temporary Inbox can see anything and everything that you do. Yes, I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt here, but still…. this concern is pretty hard to ignore!

Hope this helps,
James Gia

I don’t have time to go through so much spam. Even with the filters, I was getting about 100 spam emails a day, so I changed my email, and then after changing the information in the important accounts and then deleted the old alias.

I also had someone use my email for their spamming campaign. The solution? Deleted the “Catch-all” alias. They were using email addreses like “werasfae@nanciesweb(dot)com and I would still get the bounce-backs. Up to 1000 emails a day! Yikes!

I run my e-mail in a similar fashion to leonacrafts, utilizing multiple e-mail accounts for various situations. While I do not use as many alternate addresses, the practice is still very similar.

The best advice I can give anyone that is having problems with spam e-mail is to be careful any time you have to enter any sort of personal information, let alone e-mail address.

If you really want to try to win that amazing offer of your free new notebook computer or iPod, you would be sorry if you used your regular e-mail address. (I would avoid those offers altogether, but if you insist…)

Another alternative to e-mail addresses sorted by use, sort them by level of security. For example, here is what I do.

My main e-mail account is used for personal and business-related messages. This way, there is much smaller chance that your address will be leaked outside of this circle. Next, have a second address set up for medium level security such as online networking (Facebook, Myspace, etc). While most of the e-mails I receive on this account are junk, I still get some useful information from time to time there. Plus, it keeps my main in box clutter-free. Finally, I have an account set up for any time I have to enter in an e-mail address for any sort of newsletter from any source. I generally do not care about this account, and very rarely check it.

Of course, you can do things a bit differently to suit your level of e-mail usage.

One piece of advice I can not stress enough is be careful with what you click on. If you see a link on an unknown webpage or in an unknown e-mail that says “Click Here,” you should go ahead and just NOT! =)

Happy surfing~

google gurilla mail

What is up with all the ***** size spam?

Who out there is out running around telling the world about my *****? I get 50 such emails per day!

There is NOTHING wrong with the size of my *****; ask anybody.

Spam will never come to an end. Even legislative changes do not stop this, because our governments have both hands behind their back, accepting cash from the enemy.

I don’t need to use a Temporary Email. I use GMail, and it is BRILLIANT. No Pos-Negs whatsoever, and I can use GMail with my domains, so, no worries there.

Temp email accounts are a solid option to aid in the fight against spam - however its’ benefit is limited by the fact that those who are educated on the subject are the least likely to have a lot of need for it.

To be perfectly honest, it isn’t a solution that is practical for Granma Bertha or Uncle Ted, because it takes a level of involvement that they just are not part of. I am not meaning to sound insulting towards the non pc-educated, I am just trying to say that those who need it most are casual users who do not know any more about their pc’s than they have too to do what they need done - and that is a very large majority. They want to be able to turn it on and have it do what needs done as transparently and effortlessly as possible - so I think the ultimate solution needs to stand with the email providers and the email client devs - who may very well be able to find a way to utilize this in a Aunt Bonnie friendly way.

I’ve used several of these services, they work great. I didnt have to give my personal e-mail, wee! I gave that one and a