Tackle spam through disposable email addresses
Spam is ever growing even though lots of money is invested into fighting 
spam. It is reported by Spamcop that on an average in one second 12.2 spam messages are generated on the Internet! The maximum number of messages generated in a second were 18.2! Spamcop does a commendable job of reporting on spam and also developing tools to fight spam since 1998. To report a spam via spamcop go to http://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml.With so many web services and web sites requiring you to disclose your email address a regular user of the Internet does not know where to provide the right email address and where not to. In such cases and also where you are already getting a lot of spam creating disposable email addresses is the best trick. Earlier a lot of users used to create another email address which they used to sign up for services or give them to third parties. Recently lot of services have come up which which and signing up is very less fuss and at some of the services you do not need to register. These services provide RSS feeds as well so you can use something like Google reader to access your mail and others forward email to your main email account. Personally I like the first option of reading the mail through RSS. See what works best for you, though my favorite is Mailinator because of its simplicity. All the following are free.
spam. It is reported by Spamcop that on an average in one second 12.2 spam messages are generated on the Internet! The maximum number of messages generated in a second were 18.2! Spamcop does a commendable job of reporting on spam and also developing tools to fight spam since 1998. To report a spam via spamcop go to http://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml.With so many web services and web sites requiring you to disclose your email address a regular user of the Internet does not know where to provide the right email address and where not to. In such cases and also where you are already getting a lot of spam creating disposable email addresses is the best trick. Earlier a lot of users used to create another email address which they used to sign up for services or give them to third parties. Recently lot of services have come up which which and signing up is very less fuss and at some of the services you do not need to register. These services provide RSS feeds as well so you can use something like Google reader to access your mail and others forward email to your main email account. Personally I like the first option of reading the mail through RSS. See what works best for you, though my favorite is Mailinator because of its simplicity. All the following are free.- AnonInbox- no registration, simple, no frills.
- DodgeIt- no registration required, provides RSS feeds, receive-only.
- E4ward- requires registration, provides mail forwarding, allows multiple aliases of an account.
- GreenSloth- no registration required, receive-only, e-mail expires automatically after a week.
- KasMail- requires registration, allows up to 25 aliases, can set aliases to expire after a certain amount of time.
- Jetable- provides mail forwarding, account autoexpires after certain amount of time.
- Mailinator- no registration required, provides handy spam map, receive-only, e-mail expires automatically after a few hours.
- MailNull- requires registration, provides mail forwarding.
- PookMail- no registration required, very simple to use.
- SneakeMail- requires registration, provides mail forwarding.
- SpamDay- requires registration, provides mail forwarding, account is automatically destroyed after 24 hours of opening.
- SpamGourmet- requires registration, provides mail forwarding, can create custom aliases which automatically expire after a certain number of e-mails received.
- Spam.la- no registration required, no frills. You can see all spam being sent to all Spam.la accounts, or just your own.
- SpamMotel- requires registration, provides mail forwarding, mail can be accessed through desktop e-mail clients, can reply to e-mail from your real e-mail address using SpamMotel e-mail
- TempInbox- no registration required, provides RSS and Atom feeds, receive only, supports many different languages.
- Will Hack for Food- requires registration, account expires after user indicated period of time, best name ever.
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