Have you ever wanted to evaluate a piece of software, go to download it and you’re required to provide an email address? Of course you have, we all have.
Nobody likes spam, and as such, we’re all wary of providing email addresses in these situations, not knowing how much spam we’re going to receive. However, spambox is a nifty website/idea in which you can quickly and easily create an email address (which will forward all emails to your real email address) for a limited time.
You can have this email account active from as little as 1 hour, right up to one year. We just have to hope they won’t provide our real email addresses to the spammers!
An excerpt from the spambox.us page:
“But.. You could be collecting my e-mail address!
Yes, we could be, but we’re not doing it. We’ve got an automaticcleanup agent that wipes out every n-minutes the expired spamboxe-mails. Don’t worry, we won’t sell your e-mail to spammers.”
I hope that’s enough reassurance for you?!
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Nice tip. There are a lot of such services i think. Just found http://meltmail.com/ some days ago in a blog. Looks also really nice.
bye.
susan
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