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Hi Kevin is right, also jrmg and most others from my point of view. I am the one who started the service discussed. As in every topic there are at least two p

Hi Kevin is right, also jrmg and most others from my point of view. I am the one who started the service discussed. As in every topic there are at least two positions. I think in normal cases the service will help service providers to keep the userdatabase clean of temporary mail addresses. From the point of a user (and I am often only a user looking for services) it should also not be a problem to give a email address away if you trust the provider. But I agree: In special cases acting as a user it is useful not to give someone the email address. Like a creditcard number. From providers angle I would decline such email addresses in every case. Most of the services are free today - so the only return service is to have a communication channel to the user. It's clear for me not to spam my users as I treat them as customers. It's up to you if and how you use the service. And hopefully most of you would like them. But I know that not everyone is happy with that kind of abuse killing abuse killing systems ... (see jrockways new idea of block-sites-that-block-disposable-emails.com). Best regards, Gerold http://www.block-disposable-email.com http://www.block-disposable-email.com

HerraBRE 15y ago
Why is this not done as an RBL-style DNS-based blacklist? The queries are cheaper, mirroring and distributed caching are already built-in... Of course, charging for access would be harder, but you can still offer to sell people lists who don't want to rely on external infrastructure.
- itzekocke 15y ago
  I had DNS RBL in mind because of your mentioned advantages. But the service needs the new domain-feed done by users requesting the service. As far as I know this is not possible by DNS RBL. And: for me it was easier to develop a web based service than doing new things with bind. Gerold
  - HerraBRE 15y ago
    Fair 'nuff. :-) In case you want to revisit, dynamic DNS is really easy to do with PowerDNS (an alternative to bind). I've combined PowerDNS and Redis with a relatively thin Python glue layer, and then done some funky things with subclassing that to create programmatic answers to certain queries instead of just looking things up. PowerDNS also has native backends for MySQL and some others. If you're interested in my Python/Redis stuff, the code is here: https://github.com/pagekite/PyPdnsRedis/ https://github.com/pagekite/PyPdnsRedis/
KevinMS 15y ago
I could probably get behind this idea if it differentiated between junk accounts and premium paying users. In fact I began offering exclusive domains just to keep my paying users from dealing with this sort of thing. As of right now you are not distinguishing them.
- itzekocke 15y ago
  Hi, I always want to improve my service - also regarding the accuracy of responses. In fact paying users may have other interests than 10minutemail-users. Please contact me if you want to tell me your domains so I can have a look at them and unblock it. You find my contact here: http://www.block-disposable-email.com/about.php http://www.block-disposable-email.com/about.php Regards, Gerold

HerraBRE 15y ago

Why is this not done as an RBL-style DNS-based blacklist? The queries are cheaper, mirroring and distributed caching are already built-in... Of course, charging for access would be harder, but you can still offer to sell people lists who don't want to rely on external infrastructure.

itzekocke 15y ago
I had DNS RBL in mind because of your mentioned advantages. But the service needs the new domain-feed done by users requesting the service. As far as I know this is not possible by DNS RBL. And: for me it was easier to develop a web based service than doing new things with bind. Gerold
- HerraBRE 15y ago
  Fair 'nuff. :-) In case you want to revisit, dynamic DNS is really easy to do with PowerDNS (an alternative to bind). I've combined PowerDNS and Redis with a relatively thin Python glue layer, and then done some funky things with subclassing that to create programmatic answers to certain queries instead of just looking things up. PowerDNS also has native backends for MySQL and some others. If you're interested in my Python/Redis stuff, the code is here: https://github.com/pagekite/PyPdnsRedis/ https://github.com/pagekite/PyPdnsRedis/

KevinMS 15y ago

I could probably get behind this idea if it differentiated between junk accounts and premium paying users. In fact I began offering exclusive domains just to keep my paying users from dealing with this sort of thing. As of right now you are not distinguishing them.

itzekocke 15y ago
Hi, I always want to improve my service - also regarding the accuracy of responses. In fact paying users may have other interests than 10minutemail-users. Please contact me if you want to tell me your domains so I can have a look at them and unblock it. You find my contact here: http://www.block-disposable-email.com/about.php http://www.block-disposable-email.com/about.php Regards, Gerold