Spamgourmet: handy disposable email address service

I’d like to point out a fantastic project that an old buddy of mine from my artmovement.com [site offline for 7 years] days has been running for 7 years: spamgourmet. Spamgourmet provides you with unlimited “disposable email addresses”, for when you are forced to use an email address on the web when registering or signing up for something, and you are worried that it might get put onto a spam list or put to some other undesirable use.

It’s an ingenius system. Here’s how it works. My username is “john”. Let’s say I need to register with a newspaper in order to gain access to its content, and I don’t trust the newspaper with my email address. I’ll use an address like this:

nytimes.10.john@spamgourmet.com

This means that up to 10 emails (from anywhere on the internet, actually), can be sent to me through this email address. After it has been used 10 times, ALL email to that address will be discarded.

Neat, huh?

5 Responses to “Spamgourmet: handy disposable email address service”


  1. 1 hannah

    this is great.

  2. 2 Anonymous

    So, for example, if I wanted to leave a comment on your blog but didn’t fancy the idea of putting my e-mail address, I could create one to use just for the purpose of commenting “This is great.”

  3. 3 josh

    thanks for the plug and link!

  4. 4 John

    “Anonymous”-

    Yes, exactly.

  5. 5 mia

    Ever heard of litedrop?? No signup, rss feeds, easy access, very nice clean and fast!
    http://www.litedrop.com

    Anyway I just use this if some website want me to register just to get information from their website lol :D and yeah, litedrop can reply too.

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