AddressGuard
Yahoo’s new AddressGuard feature is a pretty useful thing. It allows you to create disposable email addresses that you can post just about anywhere. And if any of those email addresses begin to collect spam, you can just delete it and forget about it.
It came as a bit of a surprise to me when Yahoo! enabled the AddressGuard feature for me, when they’ve clearly mentioned elsewhere in the site that it’s supposed to be a paid feature. But I guess they’ve taken a form of payment already, by not converting my 6 MB account to 100 MB. Not that I really need it with GMail, Rediff and Spymac. But I think people will still have to restrict themselves to 3 MB attatchments as other providers have to support 10 MB attachments, like Mail.com and other free email providers.
June 24th, 2004 at 11:25 pm
Thats pretty neat.
Problem is, I am already recieving a lot of “virus”ed mails. So addressgaurd feature cannot help. And spam control doesnt seem to help either. I will end up losing the legitimate mails.