Everyone has spam, everyone hates spam. It is a rule of life that is rarely broken, those Spam-Poetry guys are the only known exception in my world. Most of the spam that we receive are blind carbon copies that are scripted to know you, but that is not the point here. The point is that most of the time all of those crazy sites that you sign up to ad nausea across the web is the damn problem.
You know what I am talking about, you want to get to the damn forum, or porn, or whatever but first you have to receive an email with a confirmation link. You and I both fucking know that you are never going to go to most of these sites again, in fact you are hoping that you are never going to see that damn site in your inbox again. These are the guys that are likely selling their subscriber lists to “advertising” (read “spammer”) companies. And once you are on one list you are on them forever.
So, the only options that you have are not enter an email address (which means no porn and we all know that is not a real option), enter in your email anyway and hope you won’t eventually get flooded with spam (not likely), create a temp email address (this is too much damn work), OR enter in a temporary email address that will disappear after a set amount of time.
That is where this post comes in. There are a couple of sites that allow you to do this very easily.
WH4F.org – Will Hack 4 Food
The talented and amazing guys at Binary Revolution came up with this solution along time ago, I know it has been there for at least three years, to fight spam issues. The first step that you need to do is goto WH4F.org ahead of time and setup your random email address, <something>@wh4f.org for instance, and choose a password. When you set up that account on that forum or other website, you give an email address of <something>@wh4f.org. Go the WH4F.org and log into to your temporary email account, click the damn confirmation link we want and voila! No fucking spam.
WH4F.org does give you the option of choosing how long the temp email should hang around, anywhere from 8 hours to 1 week. Now this site has been around for awhile and it is a little more trouble than normal, unlike the next option but it lets you have a longer address in case you need multiple levels of email confirmations.
Slopsbox.com
Slopsbox.com is the next generation of the venerable Will Hack 4 Food site mentioned above. When you get that itch and have to sign up for a site just create a damn random email address, <something>@slopsbox.com. THEN goto www.slopsbox.com and enter in the fictitious email account and the security code. That’s it you have email. Simple. The only problem with Slopsbox is the account will delete itself after 24 hours.
Now using either of these two sites will DRASTICLY reduce your spam levels in the future. It won’t slow down the shit you have pouring in already, but it will keep it from increasing.
