2 Prong: Easy spam-fighting disposable e-mail addresses
I'm a big fan of services that help me keep spam out of my inbox, and I'm an even bigger fan of services that make it dead easy like 2 Prong. Like many, many other services 2 Prong gives you disposable email addresses that you can use when registering for web sites that require a valid email address and clicking on an emailed validation link. What makes 2 Prong special is that it reduces this to a two-step process that's just as easy than using your own email address. All you do is visit 2prong.com and it will give you an email address (it even copies it to your clipboard for you, which may be an annoyance for some users). Then you fill out the registration form on the site you want access to and, by the power of [Via Lifehacker]












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Subscribe to commentsgdfgdfgdfgNov 16th 2006 1:53PM
great!
would be even greater if the layout could be changed so that it would fit into the Firefox sidebar.
JamesNov 16th 2006 2:48PM
Awesome! I just used it to post this message!
BNov 16th 2006 4:00PM
Ha! Nice He-Man reference!!!
z4lowlws3k@kfedisbroke.comNov 16th 2006 4:38PM
Mailintor has been doing this for sometime. You don't even have to go to the site first you just type in somename@mailinator.com and go check it. Anyone else can check it also however.
bennyNov 17th 2006 5:58PM
just checking it works....i guess this service could be be open to abuse.
me tooNov 17th 2006 6:02PM
i guess it could be used for spam too
CheekuiNov 29th 2006 8:41AM
ahaha :p
Interesting concept.
too bad it can only receive email. There's no way to reply, aye?