[kwlug-disc] So I was auditing my accounts online and thought of something.

[Bob Jonkman]

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To be honest, I never saw the value of Mailinator aliases. I was using
it for a once-only throwaway e-mail address and since I can pick any
address at all there was no point to the alias.

Some people may have wanted the "send" address to be different from
the "receive" address as a more permanent delivery solution, but I
don't think Mailinator was the right solution for that problem --
better to go with one of the big mail providers using a pseudonymous
address.

- --Bob.


On 2017-12-22 02:24 PM, Alex K wrote:
> Yes, looks like it's removed. You used to be able to get an email
> address like a NeatBubbles@, and an alias like TmVhdEJ1-12@ for it.
> This feature is gone now from Mailinator.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 1:27 PM, bob+kwlug at softscape.ca < 
> bob+kwlug at softscape.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm..... I can't seem to see any references to a hashed email
>> address on the mailinator page any more.
>> 
>> I've tried sending to the hashed address in my history but it
>> hasn't appeared. Mind you, I'm not 100% certain the hash is for
>> the address I'm looking at.
>> 
>> Have they removed this feature?
>> 
>> BB
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message----- From: kwlug-disc
>>> [mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org] On Behalf Of Chamunks 
>>> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 1:36 AM To: KWLUG discussion 
>>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] So I was auditing my accounts online
>>> and
>> thought
>>> of something.
>>> 
>>> A hashed email address?  I'm not sure how that would work I did
>>> a bit of digging around about mailinator but I don't see
>>> information about this.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 9:24 PM Alex K <korobkin+kwl at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:korobkin%2Bkwl at gmail.com> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Mailinator and some other online mail providers (mail.ru, for 
>>> example) have a cool feature of hashed email address (or had, I
>>> didn't check it for a while). For any address you can generate
>>> an obfuscated alias that no one can resolve to the original
>>> address, except for the owner.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Ronald Barnes <
>> ron at ronaldbarnes.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Maybe register a fake company / random domain (
>> my-lug-inc.com
>>> or 123456.net, etc.) and just register new, fake users when
>>> signing up
>> for
>>> services.
>>> 
>>> Johnifer at my-lug-inc.com, Sallithon at my-lug-inc.com, 
>>> bobert at 123456.net, etc.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> At least it pollutes the matching process somewhat, and
>> gives
>>> the best of the own-domain advantages plus the anonymization
>>> that comes with the fake names.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> r b
>>> 
>>> 
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