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Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by josscrowcroft »

garrettdimon wrote: post #95
josscrowcroft wrote: post #86

Question for business owners/founders: how do you feel about people signing up for your services with these throwaway email addresses? On the one hand, I respect people's privacy and right to use whatever email address they like. On the other (more relevant) hand - I sometimes need to contact users who violate terms and conditions that their access may be switched off (I'd never do this without contacting them 2-3 ti…

My feelings are that trust is a two-way street. If people don't trust us with their email address, I don't think it's fair for them to expect us to trust them with an account on our service if they provide a fake email address. If they are serious about evaluating our product, they can provide a real email address. If they aren't very serious or inherently don't trust us, then I'm willing to miss the opportunity of h…

> "trust is a two-way street. If people don't trust us with their email address, I don't think it's fair for them to expect us to trust them with an account on our service"

Solid justification for disallowing them. My service doesn't even send a reply-verification to users (but Free users get a CAPTCHA... sadly) and just assumes validity. Perhaps I ought to integrate it at some point, but personally I hate having to click to verify my email address. Comes back to trust, again.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by vidyesh »

rubergly wrote: post #99
vidyesh wrote: post #69

These are the services I use quite often when I need a disposable email id / fake inbox. http://mailinator.com/ http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://www.guerrillamail.com/ http://www.dispostable.com/ http://dudmail.com/ http://getairmail.com/ http://mailcatch.com/en/disposable-email http://spambox.us/ http://www.yopmail.com/en/ https://ssl.trashmail.net/ http://www.fakeinbox.com/ http://www.fakemai…

Which is your favorite? This is a great list, but hard to pick out the best from just reading all of these sites.

First choice is http://mailinator.com/

If its blocked then, these surely do the job

http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

https://www.guerrillamail.com/

http://www.dispostable.com/

When on tor, tormail.net

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by easy_rider »

vidyesh wrote: post #69

These are the services I use quite often when I need a disposable email id / fake inbox. http://mailinator.com/ http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://www.guerrillamail.com/ http://www.dispostable.com/ http://dudmail.com/ http://getairmail.com/ http://mailcatch.com/en/disposable-email http://spambox.us/ http://www.yopmail.com/en/ https://ssl.trashmail.net/ http://www.fakeinbox.com/ http://www.fakemai…

Thanks for the list! I will add them to our blocklist :) Our business values e-mail destinations where we can actually incite the signed up user with interesting offers, or new product features, instead of sending it into a black hole.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by kevindication »

easy_rider wrote: post #103
vidyesh wrote: post #69

These are the services I use quite often when I need a disposable email id / fake inbox. http://mailinator.com/ http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://www.guerrillamail.com/ http://www.dispostable.com/ http://dudmail.com/ http://getairmail.com/ http://mailcatch.com/en/disposable-email http://spambox.us/ http://www.yopmail.com/en/ https://ssl.trashmail.net/ http://www.fakeinbox.com/ http://www.fakemai…

Thanks for the list! I will add them to our blocklist :) Our business values e-mail destinations where we can actually incite the signed up user with interesting offers, or new product features, instead of sending it into a black hole.

It seems like you should recognize that a user does not want interesting offers when they submit a black hole address to you. Or maybe that's what you're saying you do?

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by Gormo »

antr wrote: post #81
dools wrote: post #79

For anyone wanting to stop signups from disposable email addresses I've found this service to be really good: http://www.block-disposable-email.com has a massive database and a bounty for new additions! We have 2 factor verification for http://8centsms.com/ but with the advent of disposable inbound SMS numbers via Twilio as well as disposable email addresses we were getting a bunch of people signing up and getting th…

I use disposable emails only to signup to services. I later save the email and pwd with 1Password. I've been doing this for a long time. The reason I do this is because many startups (and non-startups) keep abusing on the amount of email they send you, even if I unsubscribe from their "newsletter" they come up with other non-newsletter emails - and this is just unbearable. I feel like being spammed most of the time.…

Many email services offer disposable addresses integrated with your real email account.

Yahoo in particular has an excellent system for doing this; you can generate disposable addresses by adding a unique string to a base name particular to your account (but which isn't identical to your real address, as it is if you use a '+' delimiter with Gmail). By default, all messages received at any disposable address go to your primary inbox, but you can designate an alternate folder for each of them. Since all of your disposable addresses are @yahoo.com, it's impossible for admins to blacklist the domain.

Sorry if this sounds like a commercial for Yahoo Mail; I'm just very happy with this feature and almost never resort to using Mailinator et al.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by dbingham »

easy_rider wrote: post #103
vidyesh wrote: post #69

These are the services I use quite often when I need a disposable email id / fake inbox. http://mailinator.com/ http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://www.guerrillamail.com/ http://www.dispostable.com/ http://dudmail.com/ http://getairmail.com/ http://mailcatch.com/en/disposable-email http://spambox.us/ http://www.yopmail.com/en/ https://ssl.trashmail.net/ http://www.fakeinbox.com/ http://www.fakemai…

Thanks for the list! I will add them to our blocklist :) Our business values e-mail destinations where we can actually incite the signed up user with interesting offers, or new product features, instead of sending it into a black hole.

If I give you a blackhole e-mail address, it's because I suspect you are going to spam me. Blocking the blackhole addresses only alienates me as a customer, confirms my suspicion that you intend to spam me and adds one more barrier to my trying your software or service.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by venus »

easy_rider wrote: post #103
vidyesh wrote: post #69

These are the services I use quite often when I need a disposable email id / fake inbox. http://mailinator.com/ http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://www.guerrillamail.com/ http://www.dispostable.com/ http://dudmail.com/ http://getairmail.com/ http://mailcatch.com/en/disposable-email http://spambox.us/ http://www.yopmail.com/en/ https://ssl.trashmail.net/ http://www.fakeinbox.com/ http://www.fakemai…

Thanks for the list! I will add them to our blocklist :) Our business values e-mail destinations where we can actually incite the signed up user with interesting offers, or new product features, instead of sending it into a black hole.

Sounds like exactly the kind of spammy business people use these blackhole addresses to avoid!

> Our business values e-mail destinations where we can actually incite the signed up user with interesting offers

I get several hundred of these "interesting offers" every day.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by megablast »

vidyesh wrote: post #102
rubergly wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is your favorite? This is a great list, but hard to pick out the best from just reading all of these sites.

First choice is http://mailinator.com/ If its blocked then, these surely do the job http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://www.guerrillamail.com/ http://www.dispostable.com/ When on tor, tormail.net

Mailinator adds a new host every so often. It shows you the new host as an image, to make it a bit harder for websites to block it.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by StacyC »

easy_rider wrote: post #103
vidyesh wrote: post #69

These are the services I use quite often when I need a disposable email id / fake inbox. http://mailinator.com/ http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://www.guerrillamail.com/ http://www.dispostable.com/ http://dudmail.com/ http://getairmail.com/ http://mailcatch.com/en/disposable-email http://spambox.us/ http://www.yopmail.com/en/ https://ssl.trashmail.net/ http://www.fakeinbox.com/ http://www.fakemai…

Thanks for the list! I will add them to our blocklist :) Our business values e-mail destinations where we can actually incite the signed up user with interesting offers, or new product features, instead of sending it into a black hole.

incite the signed up user with interesting offers

I’ll bet they’re just fascinating.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by jeremyjh »

josscrowcroft wrote: post #101
garrettdimon wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My feelings are that trust is a two-way street. If people don't trust us with their email address, I don't think it's fair for them to expect us to trust them with an account on our service if they provide a fake email address. If they are serious about evaluating our product, they can provide a real email address. If they aren't very serious or inherently don't trust us, then I'm willing to miss the opportunity of h…

> "trust is a two-way street. If people don't trust us with their email address, I don't think it's fair for them to expect us to trust them with an account on our service" Solid justification for disallowing them. My service doesn't even send a reply-verification to users (but Free users get a CAPTCHA... sadly) and just assumes validity. Perhaps I ought to integrate it at some point, but personally I hate having to…

If you don't need their email address why do you even ask for it? In my mind reply-verification is mostly for account recovery purposes. If they fat-finger their email address they will never know it until they also forget their password. At least, that is what I experienced on the one app I deployed that didn't verify email addresses (but did need to send notifications to them).
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