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Is this a joke? Its called a "disposable email address" and they have been around since sneakemail.com, which started in 2000, then spamgourmet.com and then a
by KevinMS 18y ago
Is this a joke?
Its called a "disposable email address" and they have been around since sneakemail.com, which started in 2000, then spamgourmet.com and then a hundred other copycats. So basically they add OpenID to an old idea and you call it an amazing web2.0 innovation?
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoI think the "difference" is that they don't use disposable addresses per se, but rather multiple semi-permanent forwarding addresses that can be individually disabled as needed due to spam. Oh, and it's all streamlined and integrated with your normal OpenID authentication process. That's something you can't do with normal disposable accounts.
- KevinMS 18y agoI'm not seeing the difference. And I'm not finding anywhere where its explained that way. Your description "multiple semi-permanent forwarding addresses that can be individually disabled as needed due to spam" is exactly how disposable email address services work. In fact I know in sneakemail you can set a particular address to bounce, accept and delete, you can turn on greylisting for it, or you can deactivate it, you can even filter keywords on it.