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New Throwaway E-mail Service Launched

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 12 2006 10:30 AM

Submitted by WilWheaton. Edited By WilWheaton.

TAGS: spam, email

Spambox.us is a new service that lets users create temporary "throwaway" e-mail addresses, for things like forum sign-ups, membership confirmations, or other instances where you'd rather not use your primary e-mail address.

Unlike a throwaway account you'd create at yahoo or hotmail or some other online service, your Spambox address only exists as long as you want it to. For the time you specify, Spambox will transparently forward e-mails to an address of your choice, and when the time window closes, it vanishes entirely without any additional input from you.

(via DownloadSquad, which has several additional throwaway e-mail suggestions in their comments.)

10 Comments

MrNailbat

Atlanta, GA

December 2002

SEP 12, 2006 11:06 AM

Sounds great

Avalon13Chase

Baltimore, MD

June 2006

SEP 12, 2006 11:13 AM

not a bad idea.

doojoova

United Kingdom

October 2004

SEP 12, 2006 11:34 AM

sounds good enough to tempt me away from good ol' pookmail.com

DhD_No_Pants

Katy, TX

May 2006

SEP 12, 2006 11:41 AM

Yay! Thanks for the article.

thestral

Manassas, VA

August 2005

SEP 12, 2006 12:48 PM

bout goddamned time someone came up with that. Of course, it'll also be a great utility for clandestine operations. But hurray for those too.

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

SEP 12, 2006 02:47 PM

I really need to start coming up with ideas. First, the million pixel guy, now this. I have to be smart enough to come up with something as stupidly simple as that and make a million dollars.

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN

July 2003

SEP 12, 2006 06:22 PM

thestral said:
bout goddamned time someone came up with that. Of course, it'll also be a great utility for clandestine operations. But hurray for those too.

There have been services of this sort since at least the tail end of the 90s. I used one called SpamGourmet back when I was in high school. Or maybe it was junior high. I forget.

This one sounds like it has more options, though.