Disposable Email Addresses
From:
Richard Waid
Date:
Apr 14 03:36 UTC
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On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 15:12 +1200, <email obscured> wrote:
> Could you give some examples of what a 'disposable email address is' or
> how onlinegroups will be blocking them ?
Hi Dorje:
A disposable address is a temporary email address, typically used to
signup for services that don't really need your email address other than
to spam you (for example, buying something from a company over the
Internet).
One example is www.spamgourmet.com.
Now, this is very useful, but it's also very useful for spammers to sign
up to onlinegroups.net, verify their account, and have no further
accountability. Out of 20,000 odd users we have seen through the
software, only the spammers appear to have used these accounts.
Often they are also time limited (say, to 7 days), which means that
eventually they will bounce requiring us to do bounce-management work
(and eventually we will have an interface for the admin's to see this,
which means extra work for them as well!)
The tweak that Mike has made is to prevent users from signing up or
adding a disposable address to their account.
Best regards,
Richard Waid
Technical Director
onlinegroups.net