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Drew Lehman
http://www.101ftb.com/S50W70V510
I assume they sell your preference information to publishers, but in
this case I see it as a good thing. I figure if they know what I want,
they are more likely to publish what I want.
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David Dows
"S50W70V510" gets you 3 raffle tickets for each of us that you refer.
I'll play along.
I have plenty of throwaway email addresses to use, including those at
spamgourmet, where I create addresses on the fly, just by including one
of my 3 watchwords before the @ sign, control how many replies get
through before it dies, and I can increase that number or reactivate the
address whenever I want. Plus I can reply from any address without
revealing my true address.
Your message stats: 142 forwarded, 43,784 eaten. You have 26 disposable
address(es).
http://www.spamgourmet.com/index.pl
Q. *How do I create a disposable email address?*
A. The quick answer is that you don't -- they get created automatically.
Here's the long answer: First, set up an account here, if you haven't
already, and save your real email address in the space provided (/don't
skip this important step!/). Remember your username. Later, when you
need a disposable email address, just think of a word (any combination
of letters and numbers (20 characters max), provided you haven't used it
before), and decide how many messages you want to receive at the new
address. Then, put the word, the number, and your spamgourmet username
together with dots to form the disposable address. For instance, if your
Username is "spamcowboy", then you could make a disposable address like so:
/someword.2...@spamgourmet.com/
Then, you can use the address to sign up for your favorite spam-prone
website, get a confirmation message, get your password in the second
(and final) message, then smile and consider for a moment that no one,
no-how is going to send you email with that address again.
So, you really don't do anything to "create" the address - you just make
it up on the spot. The address will be created automatically in our
system the first time it gets /used/.
/Note: As of January 3, 2002,/ you can use a word instead of a number --
the system will look at the first letter of the word and use its
position in the English alphabet as the number (the words 'sender' and
'domain' are exceptions - see below). The limit of 20 still applies, so
letters after 'T' will still count as 20. So, now:
iam.a.sp...@spamgourmet.com
will be good for one message - 'a' being the first letter of the English
alphabet, and
iwannabe.you...@spamgourmet.com
will be good for twenty messages -- 'y' is the 25th letter of the
English alphabet, but since that exceeds 20, it will be set to 20.
/Note: As of sometime later,/ you can omit the number altogether, and
the "default number" (which is 3, unless you've changed it in advanced
mode) will be used., e.g.:
iamyour.s...@spamgourmet.com
would be good for 3 messages (or more, or less, if the default number
was different).