{"id":275,"date":"2004-07-13T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/the_web\/mailinator.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"mailinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2004\/07\/13\/mailinator","title":{"rendered":"Mailinator (no relation to the Terminator)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Need a one-time only email address to get a password for a website or register a product? Don&#8217;t want to be entered into even more spam databases? Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailinator.net\/\">Mailinator<\/a>. Just make up <em>any<\/em> email address @mailinator.com and go and check your mail at that address with no password. Mail gets deleted in a few hours. <\/p>\n<p> This is even better than creating a one-time only email address at your own domain (if you control your own domain): less work (you don&#8217;t need to create the address first), and no accumulating load on your server. <\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s simple but clever concepts like this that continue to give me faith in the web. <\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"smallcaps\">Update<\/span>: two readers suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/dodgeit.com\">dodgeit.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sneakemail.com\">sneakemail.com<\/a> for two similar &#8220;throwaway&#8221; email services. dodgeit.com is even more barebones than mailinator, and sneakemail is a more full-featured (includes <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.puremagic.com\/greylisting\/\">greylisting<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"smallcaps\">Update 2<\/span>: another comment-er suggests <a href=\"http:\/\/spamgourmet.com\">spamgourmet.com<\/a>. When it rains, it pours. <\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"smallcaps\">Update 3<\/span>: Hailstorms. <a href=\"http:\/\/spamlinks.openrbl.org\/filter-client-account.htm\">http:\/\/spamlinks.openrbl.org\/filter-client-account.htm<\/a> for a list of disposable email providers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need a one-time only email address to get a password for a website or register a product? Don&#8217;t want to be entered into even more spam databases? Try Mailinator. Just make up any email address @mailinator.com and go and check your mail at that address with no password. Mail gets deleted in a few hours. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}