{"id":79,"date":"2003-07-09T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2003-07-09T22:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2003-07-09T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2003-07-09T22:36:11","slug":"disposable-email-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/2003\/07\/09\/disposable-email-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Disposable email address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APINC provides a disposable email service at <a href=\"http:\/\/jetable.org\/\">jetable.org<\/a>. Give them your real email address (they promise not to sell it), and pick a time period (24\/48 hours or 4\/6\/8 days) and they&#8217;ll create an email address that expires after that amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>So, somebody you&#8217;re not sure about needs your email address? Give &#8217;em one of these. If they sell it to spammers, no problem, the name will expire soon.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful&#8230;in most email programs, if you reply to an email someone sends to the temporary address, your real address will go out in the from or sender field.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on your ISP, there are a few do-it-yourself temporary address tricks you can use. If your address is somebody@example.com, then the addresses somebody-anything@example.com or somebody(anything)@example.com might work. Test each, and see if any of them work for you.<\/p>\n<p>Then, if MrSpammer wants your email address, give them somebody-MrSpammer@example.com. If you start getting spam, you know MrSpammer really is a spammer, or sold your address to a spammer. So set your email program to filter that address straight to trash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APINC provides a disposable email service at jetable.org. Give them your real email address (they promise not to sell it), and pick a time period (24\/48 hours or 4\/6\/8 days) and they&#8217;ll create an email address that expires after that amount of time. So, somebody you&#8217;re not sure about needs your email address? Give &#8217;em [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casiello.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}