It's more than a little likely you've
gotten rid of an email address that got too well known. Odds are
you won't use your high school or college email address the rest of
your life either. You change, people change, friends and needs
change.
Stalker ex-girl/boyfriends, Children's Highlights
magazine advertisements, Viagra (for a friend), sometimes you just
want a clean break, a fresh start.
What if you can't? What if you have a really real
email address, like for work? Or maybe you don't want to give up
the one you finally were able to get on Gmail or Yahoo.
I'm fortunate in that I can rent a domain for
peanuts, hide it's ownership, and set up any number of email
accounts to accomplish the task at hand, and delete them just as
easily. I can sneak around. But not everyone can.
Kids know how to sneak around, technologically
speaking. If school blocks Facebook or porno or Disney they know
how to get around it. Without a trace. They just go to a
"proxy" website that isn't blocked, one like foxyproxy,
and jump from there to Facebook or porno or Disney. They can sneak
around the email address concern too, and so can you.
HideMyAss! does
just that. Go to HideMyAss! and
you can set up a free email address that lives for a day, week,
month, or year. Use it when that website demands a valid email
before letting you continue so it can bombard you with junk email.
That address is going to self destruct whenever you've set it to.
You can set up a bunch of them if you want, no charge.
Your HideMyAss! email
comes with an inbox so you can read the emails sent to your bogus
email address and sends you an email at your real address to tell
you when mail arrives.You can't send or reply, but you can receive
whatever you sign up for without giving up your real address.
HideMyAss! also
has a web proxy, so you can browse Facebook or porno or Disney,
just in case they're blocked at your work.
AnonEmail, part
of AnonyMouse,
which also has a web proxy, does let you send eMail. Only send, and
they get delivered sometime within 12 hours of when you send with a
phoney-baloney name and everything. Send one to yourself if you're
feeling lonely.
Now you can sneak around too, go to that website
even if it's blocked, sign up for that using a bogus email
address, and even send an eMail to that person.
Sneak around a little, or not, that's your call, and
that's Cocktail Talk.
