2 Prong: Easy spam-fighting disposable e-mail addresses

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2 Prong: Easy spam-fighting disposable e-mail addresses

by Jordan Running Nov 16th 2006

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 ~~Grayskull~~ Ajax, the activation email will pop up on the 2 Prong page as soon as it's received. You don't even have to register with 2 Prong or give it your real email address, unlike similar services. On top of that, 2 Prong intends to provide continually changing domain names so that sites can't get wise to their game. Very cool, very easy.

[Via Lifehacker]

Tags: 2 prong, 2Prong, ajax, anonymity, anonymous, email, lifehacker, privacy, registration, security, web service, WebService

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

gdfgdfgdfg said 1:53PM on 11-16-2006

great!

would be even greater if the layout could be changed so that it would fit into the Firefox sidebar.

James said 2:48PM on 11-16-2006

Awesome! I just used it to post this message!

B said 4:00PM on 11-16-2006

Ha! Nice He-Man reference!!!

z4lowlws3k@kfedisbroke.com said 4:38PM on 11-16-2006

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.

benny said 5:58PM on 11-17-2006

just checking it works....i guess this service could be be open to abuse.

me too said 6:02PM on 11-17-2006

i guess it could be used for spam too

Cheekui said 8:41AM on 11-29-2006

ahaha :p
Interesting concept.
too bad it can only receive email. There's no way to reply, aye?

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