Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Here's my e-mail, feel free to spam me to hell

Ever need something real bad, like a driver for some obscure hardware, or need to read/post to a forum or need to enter in that awesome "everyone gets a free XBOX 360" contest, but they want an e-mail address? You're not gonna want to give away your precious, 10-year old e-mail address that has that really cool sounding name. So, you make a temporary e-mail account at Yahoo! or Hotmail, get the single e-mail and forget about the e-mail address, right? WRONG!
People, there's a few things wrong with that. For one, it's a waste. Sure, Yahoo! and Hotmail delete your account after 6 months, but during that time the 2 gigs of storage are just sitting there. Sorry, it's my own thing, but that's a waste of technology and it makes me a saaaad panda. The other reason is that it takes too damn long nowadays to register for an e-mail of that sort. You have to confirm a bunch of stuff, subscribe (or not) to a bunch of offered newsletters (waste again!) and all the BS steps that they feel you need to jump through.
Or maybe you've got an e-mail account that you just use for these things, something like spam_this@hotmail.com, and you don't really care. Still, that's a bit of waste, as well.

Well, there's an alternative. Meet the only (good) e-mail service that doesn't require users to have passwords!
Link - http://www.temporaryinbox.com/
You get a random string of characters (it's pretty long), paste it into that pesky form, then go to the website and enter that same e-mail address (and no password) to check your e-mail. Once you get the confirmation e-mail and the address is no longer necessary, forget about it. Instead of half a year that it takes the big guys to delete you, this address is cleared out after six HOURS! No waste!
Even better, get the IE or FireFox plug-in, and you have a temporary e-mail generator at your fingertips. Awesome idea. Esp for those people looking for info that's behind those pesky "users only" signs.

Another service that the website offers is a forwarding e-mail address. Get an e-mail, and all the mail is sent to any other e-mail address. As soon as it becomes bogged down in spam, you can delete the forward and get a new one. Same thing as before, you can just have the e-mail sent straight to ThunderBird or Google and cancel it at any time. Beautiful idea!

Now go and register a bunch of fake e-mails for a bunch of useless, asinine and self-important websites! Damn goobers with their delusions of grandeur!

Seriously, who decided that to read a stupid forum that's free, you have to waste time to register?! It's free! You know most people get the account just to sneak a peek at some specific info, they're not gonna be life-long members! Argh!

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