{"id":221,"date":"2006-11-29T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=221"},"modified":"2006-11-29T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T22:01:00","slug":"temporary-email-adresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/temporary-email-adresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary email addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a> were running a story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10minutemail.com\/10MinuteMail\/index.html\">10 Minute Mail<\/a> today.  Basically, it&#8217;s a web page that gives you an email address that only lasts ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s extremely useful because lots of other web sites requires you to provide an email address, but you can&#8217;t be sure they won&#8217;t spam you later.  Also, to get a permanent email address with Yahoo! or Hotmail or whoever, you normally need to provide a valid email address to get started, so this provides a nice starting point.<\/p>\n<p>However, this also means it&#8217;s a very useful way for spammers or other bad guys to cover their tracks, so I wonder whether this web page will remain available, or whether there&#8217;ll be pressure to get it shut down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot were running a story about 10 Minute Mail today. Basically, it&#8217;s a web page that gives you an email address that only lasts ten minutes. It&#8217;s extremely useful because lots of other web sites requires you to provide an email address, but you can&#8217;t be sure they won&#8217;t spam you later. Also, to get a permanent email address with Yahoo! or Hotmail or whoever, you normally need to provide a valid email address to get started, so this provides a nice starting point. However, this also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}