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Disposable Email

More Ways To Beat Spam

When you sign up an account online it insists that you give an email that is useable…so the system can send you login information. Jetable creates an email for you for a specified time period (six to twenty four hours) that will temporarily forward to your main email. The idea being that you can use it to retrieve your password, but your main email is not disclosed and the submitted one ends with a timely expiry. Cool idea.

1 Comment so far

  1. July 25th, 2003

    | 11:14 am

    Of course, if the website uses that e-mail address as the place to send you a new password when you forget yours, then you’re in trouble.