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Disposable email addressing (DEA) refers to an alternative way of sharing and managing email addressing. DEA aims to set up a new, unique email address for every contact or recipient. This makes a point-to-point connection between the sender and the recipient. An e-mail address identifies a location to which e-mail can be delivered. ...
Subsequently, if anyone compromises the address or utilises it in connection with any email abuse, the address-owner can easily cancel (or "dispose" of it) without affecting any other contact. Following the cancellation or replacement of a disposable email address, the (ex-)owner need notify no more than one person/contact of the change. E-mail has become the subject of much abuse, in the form of both spamming and E-mail worm programs. ...
By comparison, the traditional practice of giving the same email address to multiple recipients means that if that address subsequently changes, many legitimate recipients will need to receive notification of the change and to update their records — a potentially tedious process.
DEA, in essence, sets up a different, unique disposable email address for every sender/recipient combination, and its owner shares it only once.
Most likely, but not always, cancellation of a disposable email address takes place because someone starts to use the address in an illegitimate manner. This may occur through the accidental release of an email to a spam list, or because the original recipient unscrupulously and deliberately obtained it deceptively. Whatever the cause, DEA allows the address owner to take unilateral action by simply cancelling the address in question. Later, the owner can determine whether to update the recipient or not. A typical spam advertisement Spam by e-mail is one type of spamming that involves sending identical or nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients. ...
Unilateralism is an antonym for multilateralism. ...
For the sake of convenience, disposable email addresses typically forward to one or more real email mailboxes where the owner receives and reads messages. The recipient of a disposable email address never needs to know the real email address of the user. If a database manages the DEA, it can also quickly identify the expected sender of each message by retrieving the recipient of each unique DEA. Used properly, DEA can also help identify which recipients handle email addresses in a careless or illegitimate manner. Moreover, it can serve as an effective tool for spotting counterfeit messages, or phishers. A database is an organized collection of data. ...
A counterfeit is an imitation that is made with the intent to deceptively represent its content or origins. ...
This phishing attempt, disguised as an official email from Charter One Bank, attempts to trick users into giving away their account information by confirming it at the phishers linked website. ...
DEA operates most usefully in situations where someone may sell or release an email address to spam lists or to other unscrupulous entities. The most common situations of this type involve online registrations for things such as discussion groups, bulletin boards, chat rooms, online shopping, and file download websites. A discussion group is an online forum for individuals to discuss various topics amongst each other. ...
Well-used bulletin board on the Infinite Corridor at MIT, November 2004. ...
A chat room is an online forum where people can chat online (talk by broadcasting messages to people on the same forum in real time). ...
Online shopping is the process consumers go through to purchase products or services over the internet. ...
At a time when email spam has become an everyday nuisance, and when identity theft threatens, DEA can serve as a convenient tool for keeping network users safe and sane. A typical spam advertisement Spam by e-mail is one type of spamming that involves sending identical or nearly identical messages to thousands (or millions) of recipients. ...
Identity theft (or identity fraud) is the deliberate assumption of another persons identity, usually to gain access to their finances or frame them for a crime. ...
The plus addressing technique also allows someone to create a new, unique email address, for example username+companyname.checkstring@domain style addresses can function as DEAs. A checkstring, which is optional, allows the MTA to block attempts by spammers to bypass the DEA filtering. Example checkstrings: a static string or checksum one can compute in one's head and program an MTA to compute, such as with a sieve or procmail script. the username of the recipient, and the part after the @ sign is a domain name which can be looked up in the Domain Name System to find the mail exchange servers accepting e-mail for that address. ...
External links The most well known disposable email services are: Many other disposable email services are listed at - http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Preventing/
- http://del.icio.us/tag/email+privacy
Some people discuss disposable email addresses at - C2: Throwaway Email And Rid Yourself Of Spam
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