| temporary e-mail | | Date Created: Sep 15, 2006, 05:48 PM |
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My friend Brett recently blogged about sites that perform the extremely useful service of URL referencing -- sites that will take long ungainly web addresses and allow you to reach them via shorter ones. TinyURL produces the shortest, but I prefer url(x) which preserves the site name in the shorter link.
Whenever I think of those services, I also think of a site that performs another useful service: it creates an e-mail address that only works for a limited period of time. The one I use is called Jetable. You tell Jetable your real e-mail address and they create a temporary address for you. Anything that is sent to the temp address is forwarded to your real address, but only for the amount of time that you specify. After that the temp e-mail address vanishes. This allows you to give away an e-mail address when signing up for some offer from a company on the web you don't know, confident that you'll receive the registration details or whatever that they promise, but won't receive the spam that results when they sell their address lists four weeks from now.
One only hopes that Jetable never sells their e-mail lists. |
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