{"id":1839,"date":"2012-09-04T11:16:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/tech\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2012-09-04T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T18:42:21","slug":"do-you-use-a-disposible-email-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/tech\/1839\/do-you-use-a-disposible-email-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Use a Disposible Email Address?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"
Alternative email addresses can help you manage spam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Do you ever use a disposable email address to prevent being bombarded with mailings from a vendor or other website? There are several ways to do this, including a few services that offer temporary emails for just this purpose. If you’d like to consider faking out websites that ask for your email address, here are a few approaches.<\/p>\n

1) You could give a fake email address, but this won’t work if you ever need to log back into the site, or if the site sends the info you want via email.<\/p>\n

2) You could use a temporary email address from services such as Mailinator<\/a> or 10 Minute Mail<\/a>. For a longer list of providers, read this article from Ghacks.net<\/a>. These work well when you want to read the first email the site sends, but not any (ever) down the road.<\/p>\n

3) You could use an email address that forwards to your primary email, but is filtered out so that it goes directly to spam or is archived.<\/p>\n

4) Or you could use a secondary email account that you own, but don’t check regularly. <\/p>\n

I like approaches #3 and #4 because you never know when an unimportant vendor could transform into an important one, and\/or you need to retrieve a password reset email or an old email newsletter.<\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\t\t

<\/p>\n\t\t

<\/p>\n\t\t

POLL: Do you use a special email address to avoid spam from websites?<\/strong><\/p>