Having your inbox flooded with spam emails because you had to give your email in order to sign up for whatever can really suck, thankfully there is a better way in the form of Mailinator.This free website allows you to create disposable emails for the sole purpose of receiving spam that is deleted after a few hours. There is no sign up of any kind so the only way of checking your email is to either create your own email address or use a randomly generated one by Mailinator and click "Go!". the email address that you use can be used by ANYONE as long as they have the name, so there's no real security to speak of , therefore don't be an idiot and use it for handling sensitive affairs. The emails that you get are heavily stripped of fancy stuff like HTML, pictures and stuff like that so all that you will be left is text and links making it perfect for activating accounts in websites. A single address can hold up 10 emails which is enough for most people. In conclusion Mailinator is a handy service for stopping a little the threat of spam, just remember that is no real security here.http://www.mailinator.com/
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Just want to say that many websites are getting wise to these disposable email sites and I have found that on a number of occasions all the Mailinator addresses are blocked from use... which of course renders Mailinator pretty much useless. They need to keep changing their @ extensions to keep ahead of being discovered.
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