Stop Spam From Even Reaching Your E-mail Inbox!

Ah, the Mailinator; long name, easy and clever service. If you never gave out your email somewhere on the web, you would be getting a pile less of SPAM in your mailbox. Sure there is Yahoo and Hotmail free email services, but what a pain when you just need to fill in a required box in an online form.

If you think putting in any made-up, fake e-mail into a form will work - it doesn't always. Some sites will automatically check to make sure you have entered a valid e-mail address that works.

The Mailinator solves that problem by providing you with a free, temporary, and I mean temporary, email address. No signups, no money and no hassle. No private information to give out to use their service either - good going!

All you do is make up an email, for example, yourname@mailinator.com. Use it in a site form and you have a working email for several hours.

Go to mailinator.com and type your made up email in the account field on the home page. You will be taken to your email box. If you were expecting an email response, it will be there waiting, but the email box is only good for a couple hours and poof it is gone.

Perfect for getting a free e-book download or to fill in a form on a site you really do not want to give your main email address to. Disposable e-mail addresses - now that's clever.

Bonus: As pointed out at the Mailinator site, if someone asks you for your e-mail at a party (and you really don't want to give it) you can say sure, it's "madeupname@malinator.com"

Have fun with it!

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