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

[Alex K]

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
> >
> >
> >               _______________________________________________
> >               kwlug-disc mailing list
> >               kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> >               http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org
> >
> >
> >
> >       _______________________________________________
> >       kwlug-disc mailing list
> >       kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> >       http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org
> >
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> kwlug-disc mailing list
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/attachments/20171222/57f7daac/attachment.htm>