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Reduce spam emails
Shashank Sharma keeps the menace of spam at bay by using temporary email addresses from the comfort of the terminal.
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Shashank Sharma is a trial lawyer in New Delhi and an avid Arch user. He’s always on the look-out for geeky memorabilia.
While there are some reports of people receiving unsolicited messages in their mailbox as far back as the late 19th century, spam as we now suffer it dates back to the early iterations of the internet. Regardless of how careful you are in choosing where you use an email address, it’s only a matter of time before unsolicited emails land in your inbox.
Of course, spam filters on email services such as Gmail are quite impressive, but false positives/negatives are regular occurrences. This means that genuine messages are falsely flagged as spam and worse still, spam messages manage to get past the filter and into your inbox.
Thankfully, there are many services that help you create disposable email addresses. 1secMail (www.1secmail.com) is one such service. It automatically deletes all messages received on usercreated email addresses, and even the addresses are periodically trashed without user intervention.