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

Chamunks chamunks at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 21:32:45 EST 2017


The way you describe it Alex, is somewhat what I'm thinking except you'd
get like 50 per seed for free or something and then more and outgoing if
you're premium or something so it can be supported.

On Fri, Dec 22, 2017, 8:25 PM Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

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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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