{"id":1833,"date":"2006-11-30T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2006-11-30T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T01:44:00","slug":"this-e-mail-will-self-destruct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/this-e-mail-will-self-destruct\/","title":{"rendered":"This e-mail will self destruct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from a longer tech column I wrote for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailylight.com\">WDL<\/A> this week. It should appear in Friday or Sunday&#8217;s paper.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting tired of giving out your e-mail address just to register for a website or online service, get a self-destructing e-mail address from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10minutemail.com\">10MinuteMail.com<\/A>.<br \/>\nThe site automatically creates an e-mail address that can be accessed from the website.<br \/>\nAfter 10 minutes of use, the address self-destructs, giving you plenty of time to respond to verification e-mails but not enough time for your e-mail box to get inundated with loads of spam and junk mail.<br \/>\n10minutemail\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s developer, Devon Hillard, said the idea for the site came while he was trying to learn SEAM, a new software framework from Jboss.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I always learn things more easily when I&#8217;m actually building something new, versus simply reading a manual,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hillard said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The idea for the application itself occurred to me when I noticed how much spam I was getting &#8212; several thousand a day, although most get handled by spamassassin and other tools &#8212; and how often I had to provide my e-mail address to a site that I really didn&#8217;t trust not to sell it, just to be able to reply to a topic on a forum for instance.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nThe website went live on Satuday, Nov. 25 and after sending a couple e-mails to friends the site took off.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153So far the site has served about 150,000 e-mail addresses,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hillard said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The counter got reset during a server bounce and the site has had 1.2 million hits.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nNot bad for a program put together just to learn a new software framework.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>10 Minute Mail: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.10minutemail.com\">www.10minutemail.com<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from a longer tech column I wrote for the WDL this week. It should appear in Friday or Sunday&#8217;s paper. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting tired of giving out your e-mail address just to register for a website or online service, get a self-destructing e-mail address from 10MinuteMail.com. 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