Guys/Gals i used to have yahoo/sbcglobal email address until i got a cable modem. They have a feature that i think its just awesome called address guard. They allow you to create a email prefix and any number of suffixes off of there. For example:
Email Prefix: foobar- (Permanent)
and then you can create any number of suffixes (temporary) to create a email address:
foobar-ebay@yahoo.com
foobar-amazon@yahoo.com
foobar-newegg@yahoo.com
ect......
As soon as you start getting spam on one of the mails you just delete the suffix. So for example say you start getting spam at foobar-ebay@yahoo.com. You just delete this address and create a new one foobar-ebay2@yahoo.com. I really would like this feature again but i don't want to spend $20.00 a year just for this. Does anyone know any forwarding service like this where you could create an email address (which forwards to your main email address) and as soon as you get spam then you could delete it? There are many temporary email address services out there but this is not what i want. They generally are not secured and they delete the email address after like 24 hours.
No matter how much we try to fight spam at our inboxes we eventually end up getting spam. You end up having a friend (many of them computer illiterate). They have you in their address book and they get spyware on their computer that steals your address....or they send you forwards (after you asked them not to) and broadcast your address to everyone and their dog. Ive also had problems with ebay. There is no way to prevent a seller from getting your email address and after they do ive been spammed by them.
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
Ncage
Email Prefix: foobar- (Permanent)
and then you can create any number of suffixes (temporary) to create a email address:
foobar-ebay@yahoo.com
foobar-amazon@yahoo.com
foobar-newegg@yahoo.com
ect......
As soon as you start getting spam on one of the mails you just delete the suffix. So for example say you start getting spam at foobar-ebay@yahoo.com. You just delete this address and create a new one foobar-ebay2@yahoo.com. I really would like this feature again but i don't want to spend $20.00 a year just for this. Does anyone know any forwarding service like this where you could create an email address (which forwards to your main email address) and as soon as you get spam then you could delete it? There are many temporary email address services out there but this is not what i want. They generally are not secured and they delete the email address after like 24 hours.
No matter how much we try to fight spam at our inboxes we eventually end up getting spam. You end up having a friend (many of them computer illiterate). They have you in their address book and they get spyware on their computer that steals your address....or they send you forwards (after you asked them not to) and broadcast your address to everyone and their dog. Ive also had problems with ebay. There is no way to prevent a seller from getting your email address and after they do ive been spammed by them.
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
Ncage