I don't know who wants to send me e-mail.
Throttle – Control who can send you email
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Re: Throttle – Control who can send you email
#12I discovered that when you delete your email address for a week almost all the spam and newsletters disappear. I don't know exactly how it works, but it does. So every couple years I just completely disable my email address for ten days, or whatever, while on vacation.
I don't know how spammers work, but legit mailing list software/providers will remove an address after a number of soft or hard bounces.
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#13Seems fairly similar to sneakemail[0] (which I have been using for more than a decade), but with more polish. Looks like Throttle's basic service doesn't handle attachments or replying (sneakemail does), which is unfortunate.
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#14Am I missing something? Why not just create a filter that permanently deletes or marks emails from a certain sender as spam?
That doesn't catch the cases where the sender uses a different From: address, or shares your email address with third parties.
Ah, I see. Looks promising then!
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#15No idea how it works (can't watch a video where I am and it isn't explained anywhere else), but it does seem to consolidate a few useful features that I currently get elsewhere:
-Combine mass mailings in to a single daily digest email (Unrollme)
-Find out who tries to sell your email address (Using email+website@gmail.com)
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#16To achieve the same cheaply and without lockin, simply have your own domain with a catch-all email forwarding to your real email address. Then always give out your email address for a specific site as @yourdomain.com.
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#17It's been around forever but a basic free way to mask your email address is Spam Gourmet
https://www.spamgourmet.com/index.pl
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#18This is just anonymizing of addresses. Through your throttle account, connected to a convenient browser extension, you can conveniently generate throwaway addresses which forward to the real inbox. These addresses can be shut down and since they are unique, they identify misuse.
Anonymizing isn't new. For instance Craigslist generates an anonymized e-mail address through which people interested in your ad can contact you. (Of course, if you reply to it, then you reveal your real address.)
People who run their own mail domains do this kind of thing on their own.
I have the following system: the local part of the e-mail address has a four digit security code. If I give such an e-mail address to some vendor, it serves two purposes: the address bypasses spam checks, so I'm sure to get the e-mail. (Usually transactional e-mails are important and not easy to re-send.) Secondly, I can change the code to shut down senders who abuse the the address.
Some banks offer throwaway one-time-use credit card numbers linked to your real credit card. That is very similar to this.
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#19Takes about 5 pages until you get to the little price tag. I wonder how many abandonments they will get. Personally I like seeing the price up front.
And you pay for a year up front at $48! That's surprising.
This product seems like a good candidate for a free trial period. Users will become invested to some degree during the trial and may be reluctant to stop using it.
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#20I like the browser plugin here which lets you generate these e-mails easily.
An open source version would really be handy for people who host their own domains.
I could use a FireFox extension which lets me click next to some e-mail field to generate an address by talking to some web shim on my server at home, which generates the alias and binds it to my e-mail address via /etc/aliases, and restarts Exim.
The generated e-mail could actually be a cookie which contains not only some random ID but an encoded version of the domain name of the site against whose page it was generated. So later, when that address is being abused, you can tell where it came from without looking up any association in any file or database.