Jetable email
Most people would agree that spam is annoying. But when you’re on the road with a slow connection e.g. a satphone, it becomes more than that – it slows you down in getting the email you do actually want, hinders your work, and to top it off you’re paying for the bandwidth to download the spam. One of the primary ways that you’ll receive spam is via web forms that unnecessarily demand your email address and then sell it to spammers. The practice of using disposable email addresses to counter this has been around for some time but usually requires you to check for mail sent to the disposable address on a website.
Enter Jetable – a website and service provided by the French Association for the Promotion of the Non-Commercial Internet. You simply go to the Jetable website, enter your real email address, a time limit for the disposable address, and it generates a random email address to use on the web. Any mail then sent to this address within the time limit specified is then forwarded to your real email address. It’s simple and it works. And for users of Mozilla FireFox, there’s an extension that automates the whole process.
Whilst on the subject, registration on many websites can be bypassed entirely by using the Bugmenot website, or the Bugmenot extension for FireFox users.
