How do I know whether a web site that I've never heard of before is legit or suspicious? One way of finding out is to give them a disposable e-mail address and

How do I know whether a web site that I've never heard of before is legit or suspicious? One way of finding out is to give them a disposable e-mail address and see if they spam me or share my address. If you want my trust, you need to earn it. Also, providing a disposable e-mail address doesn't make me any less of a "real person". For example, I've been here on HN for 11 years. I originally signed up with a disposable e-mail address (one of the domains on your block list), and only gave them my real address several years later, when I started corresponding with the moderators. If HN had no problem at all with this, why should you?