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2 ways to protect your email address

Posted on the March 8th, 2008 under Internet, Tips, Tutorial by dicky

Sometimes, we want to sign up for a web service, but were hesitate to giving out our email address because it may brought us a lot of spam mails. There are a few solution to this question.

Use a disposable email address

There are a lot of disposable email that you can choose. Guerrilla Mail and Mint email are the examples. When you visit Mint email, you will get a random email address. When you want to sign up any service, just use the random email address. Normally, these email will last for few hours. Some of them even provide automatic email verification. By using such service, you real email address will never appear on the spammer list.

Use temporary email forwarding service

This is the service which will create an temporary email account for you ( but you need to provide your real email account for them). Then you use the temporary email account to sign up anything you want. After that, all emails received by the temporary email will automatically forwarded to your real email account. Melt Mail is a website which provide this service.

Conclusion

I personally recommend the first solution. You still have to provide your email address to the temporary email forwarding service. Who knows they will sell your email address to others company? But the advantage of the second service is, you still can save your registration email in your own inbox, but you won’t get them if you use the disposable email address.

Guerrilla Mail | Mint email | Melt Mail

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