Disposable e-mail address roundup: mailiminator and others

Published : Thursday, October 6th, 2005

Here's a pretty nice roundup of some of the services available to create throwaway e-mail addresses to keep your inbox free from spam.

There is a spam coutner-culture growing fast on the web.  With sites like mailiminator agressive on the front lines against spam I feel pretty good about the future.

Here is how mailiminator works:  Say you see a really interesting $100K per day offer on the Internet! Surely, you can't pass it up.. this could be your big break.  The site even says so. The site wants you to simpply submit your email and the cash will come rolling in.   But your not sure because the last site you submited your email to offered $200K per day and as soon as you entered you email address you recieved 300K emails per day. 

So instead of entering your address you just make up some junk mailiminator account and have all the traffic sent there instead.

That is a good idea and here are many more antispam tools for you: 

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