We've all done it. We've signed up for this forum or any other website which wants us to verify our address. Or maybe we do not want to communicate with the site, but it needs an address anyways. Whatever the reason, why must we keep giving our information away? Giving away our information, even as little as an email address, opens people up for spam and junk mail. Ok, so this may not be a miracle solution but it is a step towards fighting spam.
If you are stuck in one of the aforementioned situations, go to a website such as mailinator.This is a free disposable email. when you need a quick email that is ot dependent on your regular email so you do not have to give out information, go to this site and pick out a name on the fly. The website generates a email inbox for you so you can use this email address you created for the form on the website requesting your address. Then on the main screen in mailinator where it says check your inbox, type in the temporary email and click go. That takes you to a temporary inbox where you can click on the email and verify your email address so you can have access to the site.
This way, you do not have to give our an email address to a site that may possible sell or give it to someone else to spam you. But do not use these temporary email addresses as your real email address. Obviously after a certain time, the temporary inboxes are deleted rfor someone else to use. After all, I wonder how many people have used johndoe@mailinator.com as an email?
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