GeurillaMail: Get a Disposable Email Address

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1. Tuppy Glossop says:
   November 22, 2007 at 23:25 pm

   Rosalind, you’re right … it’s a great service for the *user*. There’s another good one called 10MinuteMail.com that does the same thing.

   But of course, there’s a massive downside for internet marketers building email lists. If you offer a report, gift, special offer, etc. in return for a name and email address, and your potential customers use a disposable email address … you’re out of luck.

   I haven’t seen this addressed anywhere, but I suspect that marketers may need to start restricting certain domains from registering in order to avoid this problem.

   And yes … I’ve used these services quite often myself in order to avoid registering for yet another email list.
2. Rosalind Gardner says:
   November 24, 2007 at 8:00 am

   HI Tuppy,

   So much out there is spam pure and simple and I’m still trying to remove myself from some lists!!

   I like this option because it gives a person a chance to review the free download and if they’re satisfied with the product’s quality, they can go back and sign up for the person’s list later.

   On the marketer’s side of the coin, I’d be surprised if many aren’t doing it already. I know I’ve seen those messages, but can’t remember where exactly right now… sorry.

   Cheers,
   Ros
3. Tuppy Glossop says:
   November 26, 2007 at 8:21 am

   That’s true, I hadn’t thought of going back to signup again.

   The other reason I’ve started using disposable emails occasionally is when I’m already signed up for someone’s list because of a previous purchase or download.

   One or two of the biggest names in IM seem to be very poor at doing a merge & purge of their various lists before sending … I always get multiple emails from several people (*cough* Joel Comm *cough*)
4. Rosalind Gardner says:
   November 26, 2007 at 8:32 am

   Tuppy,

   Oh ya… I hear ya.

   What I love is trying to unsubscribe from just one of those lists and not being able to do so.

   Then they warn you that you’ll be unsubscribed from everything… and if you’re an affiliate that would be a bad thing… so you just go on clicking that “Trash” icon a hundred or more times a day.

   Oh my aching fingers!

   Cheers,
   Ros
5. Jake says:
   November 26, 2007 at 10:40 am

   For at least 6 years now I’ve been using a cool, free disposable email address service at SpamGourmet.com. After you create your account, you can then create new/disposable email addresses on-the-fly whenever you want. They will be forwarded to your private address, and I think you can also reply from it, too. There are many more features available (for free), but the cool thing is that you can, again on-the-fly, designate how many emails are sent before it automatically expires and further emails are disposed. Moreover, they offer a few handfuls of usable domains to pick from that all work with your newly created email addresses.

   So, for example, if I want to register for an online sweepstakes or something and don’t want to give out my real address, while I’m filling out the their webform I might use this:

   DeltaAirlines.4.myusername@spamgourmet.com

   The “4″ means that after 4 emails, I won’t get anything forwarded to me anymore (I can login to SG and change that if I like).

   And if you decide you want to make a temporary address permanent, you can enable permanent forwarding, too.

   Actually I’ve been gradually migrating off of this service and just using my own domain name instead – I can create new addys on-the-fly with my domain(s), then disable them if they turn out to be recipients of spam (I log in to GoDaddy and forward that email address to disposal@nowhere.invalid).
6. Rick Wilson says:
   November 26, 2007 at 12:42 pm

   Ros Says: “I like this option because it gives a person a chance to review the free download and if they’re satisfied with the product’s quality, they can go back and sign up for the person’s list later”

   That’s good to a certain extent but what’s the incentive to really go back and signup “legitimately” since they have the freebie anyway? Just as easy to signup and then unsubscribe.

   Don’t get me wrong … I HATE spam as much as most people and get annoyed at trying to get unsubscribed from multiple lists from same person too. But it also annoys me that people will use “useless” email addresses just to get the freebie. Plus all the bounce-backs that this starts.

   But I now have a nice list of “throwaway” email services that I can and do ban and I can add this one to it also. Thanx!

   My 3 centz anyway … heh heh

   Have A Prosperous AND Safe Holiday Season!

   Rick Wilson