Talk:Disposable email address

External example links

There are many many sites that do this (which is good), but let's try to limit the visible list to 5, wikipedia is not dmoz. Better lists can already be found here, anyway:

• http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Preventing/
• http://del.icio.us/tag/email+privacy

Let's list 5 that are reliable, and well known. Agreed?

Can I suggest we add http://willhackforfood.biz because it can send as well as receive, unlike all the other ones which are receive only?  --  W  P Talk 04:11, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, there seems to be a lot of changes occuring in this list. I don't mind with willhackorfood, generally, but maybe we should argue about those links here, for all of them. Which other link do you think is less important and should be removed in favor of willhackorfood? Peter S. 08:15, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

In line with wikipedia linking policy, I removed the rather random two links to actual services and added another overview of services. If you know of any other, annotated, overviews, please add those and do not add links to services themselves. dirkjot

Edits

I attempted to format the article, define the things said a little better, explain the issues and find some sources. The fundamental content hasn't been changed much, but I did find some references to back up the article. It would be sweet if someone who's more into network administration than I am could find some solid, technical source about administrators' methods of dealing with DEAs, and the methodology employed by DEA service providers. My area of, um, "expertise" is limited to the user experience I've had using DEAs before Mailshell decided to shut down. Feel free to clean up :) JorenCombs 21:39, 3 February 2007 (UTC) Joren

Links

• http://www.pookmail.com/
• http://www.jetable.org/en/index

Balance

Are the only uses of DEA for abuse? I'm not sure, but that's the slant taken by the article.....

Quick recheck on article balance?

-The entire first paragraph Following 'Potential Problems' is utter crap. This is a textbook example of what editors should do their best to avoid. I'm appealing to a good samaritan out there somewhere to rewrite this to better fit Wiki's writing standards. Anonymous 23:46, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

FT2 ^{(Talk | email)} 14:22, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Facebook blacklisting DEAs

I've posted on my blog at http://www.kinasevych.ca/archives/238 my personal experience with and screen captures of Facebook's banning of the Spamex DEA. I hope this is helpful.

Okinasevych (talk) 00:58, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

"Poor man's DEA"

(Please excuse me for my quite bad English level)

First, I don't know if this known enough to be in this article (a sentence said itself "the vast majority of e-mail addresses do not use this technique").

However, it is still interesting.

I find that "is considered unlikely that a program would bother going to this effort" is a little buggy: it is very easy to do for a program (and unless spammers have 4Mhz CPUs working with Petabits connection there is no problem of CPU usage). The real argument is that a lot of coders are lazy (i'm a lazy person too).

But the most interesting is to modify a little the way it works: all email *not* using a plus sign could be discarded and so an efficient system could be made. It's still possible to have another main account to avoid such tricks with real friends...

So, interesting section...

W7a (talk) 00:02, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

The "CheckString" solution needs to be explained more clearly, as does the "Checksum" above. I know what a checksum is, but what is the relevance to DEA? (I suspect it's just for pseudo-randomness, but that's just a guess.) Concrete examples would go a long way in both sections; e.g. "here's how DEA and poor man's DEA would look when creating a disposable address when creating an account at amazon.com."

freedom of speech

Missing a section on freedom of speech. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.110.185.135 (talk) 07:12, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Removed "See Also" link to TrashMail

I wanted to say thanks for trying to de-orphan the article TrashMail, but I couldn't see any reason to include it as a link from the main DEA article. Currently, the article does not mention any DEA provider (I'm wondering if this should change, see "history section") but if you think there is a convincing reason to include TrashMail in the DEA article, then it might make sense to link to their article. As it stands, the article lends itself to becoming a long list of/advertisement for DEA providers, so we need to be careful what we choose to link to from here :)Joren (talk) 13:23, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Linking together relevant Wikipedia articles cannot be compared to mass-listing of external URLs. People mistake encyclopaedic objectivism for suppressing commercially beneficial information. (Call it "spam fallacy".) Besides can't see why TrashMail should be singled out. I'm bringing it back.
– 6birc (talk) 17:35, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

DEA, Wikipedia and me

Fact: My own Wikipedia username comes from a disposable e-mail address generated over 9 years ago. That address is still functional despite being blatantly published for all to see on my user page since 2002—virtually spam-free! Impressive job, Sneakemail!
– 6birc (talk) 18:37, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

History Section?

The topic above started me on a train of thought that it might be good to write up a "History" section detailing who the major players were in creating disposable e-mail addressing. I tried Googling to find information but was not successful... Are there notable DEA providers who are instrumental in the history of disposable e-mail addressing? Who was the first to invent the concept? (e.g. Sneakemail and Mailinator both lay claim to this) I would love to have a history section, as I've been using DEAs for years ever since Mailshell started up but I remain largely ignorant of the history myself. Anyone got some sources?Joren (talk) 13:23, 30 July 2009 (UTC)