[kwlug-disc] Open Source Yearbook

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> From: CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 
>Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 3:20 PM
>Subject: [kwlug-disc] Open Source Yearbook
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>I just downloaded the Open Source Yearbook for 2015.  There was a surprising number of good ideas in this article.  I was so impressed I ended up signing up for the regular newsletter.
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>Check it out at https://opensource.com/life/16/3/free-download-2015-open-source-yearbook-now-available
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>You have to give your email to get the right link mailed to you, but I thought it was worth it...



FWIW, you can use MaskMe in Firefox for 'one-off' email addresses. https://www.abine.com/maskme/

Note: Ignore the blur upgrade notes, revert / find the MaskMe only version of things, not Blur. i.e. Dig out MaskMe, specifically, in firefox addons.


Blur also does password remembering, as LastPass also gives, and the two trip over each other. Which gets annoying, really fast. While MaskMe, standalone, has been really quite handy.

You can also use gmail's 'address obfuscater' if it can be called that, by using myemail+somethingelse at gmail.com - but it's not a stretch that truncating '+ to @' = real address. Even so, such would still allow you to filter and redirect incoming messages as you wish. e.g. If abused, you could redirect +thisisspambutwehopeyoudontnotice directly to your deleted folder.

Both are incoming only. (This seems to matter less these days, where such addresses are used as sign ins to web pages, so one can send from there on the occasion that one needs to. e.g. forum sending.)

You can add the identity to thunderbird, if you use it frequently enough, but the obfuscation is really only cosmetic.

There is also mailnull, which you can send from. https://mailnull.com/