[sotd] Mailinator.com - Service of the Month [March 31, 2006]

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  • Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:40:06 -0400

        Site of the Day for Friday, March 31, 2006

        Mailinator.com - Service of the Month

A handy solution to the modern dilemma of "what's your e-mail address?" too
often demanded by importuning sales people and websites is this month's
free service. Mailinator is a different kind of e-mail provider. There's no
sign up, no password and no privacy either. In other words, it's a
perfectly legitimate black hole where e-mails are vaporized within a few
hours.

"Have you ever gone to a website that asks for your email address? (haven't
we all). You know that the moment you type it in, it is streaming across
the net on its way to every spam database in the world. You simply can't be
that careless with your personal email address. ...  On the other hand, you
do want at least one message from that [source]. The answer is to give them
a mailinator address. You don't need to sign-up. You just make it up on the
spot. ... It's like super-instant, always-ready, any-email-you-want email."
- from the website

The beauty of the Mailinator service is its blissful lack of requirements.
Simply conjure up a name, any name, add the @mailinator.com designation to
create a valid e-mail address; no prior visit to the site is necessary.
That on-the-fly created address is immediately functional and any messages
sent to the "account" can be accessed for a limited time simply by logging
in with the address; no password required. Three additional domain names
are also available should a website be persnickety about accepting
"mailinator.com"; the in-your-face sales person probably won't care.

Send it a test message and then swan over to the site to check it out at:

http://www.mailinator.com/

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