Here's an interesting approach.
A company is offering free "disposable" E-mail addresses... but unlike
Yahoo/Hotmail/etc, these are short-duration E-mail addresses that
self-destruct
after a short time (1-8 days).
You give them your "real" E-mail address (which they promise not to sell...?)
and how long you want it to last, and they generate a "disposable" E-mail
address which will forward to your real one for the indicated lifespan.
The obvious use is when you "need" to give your E-mail address to some
Website
or something for them to send something to you (say, a login password or
confirmation code or something) but where you maybe don't trust them to not
abuse that E-mail address in the future.
Interesting concepts but two thoughts come up: what do they do about
privacy
They discuss that at their Web site, I think, but I didn't bother to go there
(since I wasn't personally all that likely to use their service...)
and what happens when addresses are reused?
I'd presume that they NEVER reuse them.
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