July 26, 2004

Self-destructing e-mail address service

THIS WEEK NetSpeak features a few auto-expire, disposable e-mail address services.

It is common knowledge that an e-mail id, which is in wide circulation, becomes more vulnerable to spam or junk mails. As regular readers of this column would recall, one solution to control this menace is to make your main e-mail address less known to the public. Actions such as publishing the address on web sites, providing it to on-line services while signing-up an account with them and the like are some of the means through which an e-mail address gets out of your hand.