Comments on: A contact form that doesn’t put your email at risk

By: Roy

Roy — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:37:03 +0000

@hitsuji, thanks for I’ll have a look.

By: Hitsuji

Hitsuji — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:04:29 +0000

@roy

gmail somewhat does this : all emails sent to xyz+someone@gmail.com will be recieved by someone@gmail.com so just block xyz+someone@gmail.com if you start recieving spam there

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:12:02 +0000

have you seen this service which relays emails to your account.

It worked like this:
Your email address is someone@non-real.com
You want to register a new account on XYZ’s webpage… so you goto the service, and create a new email address: someone-xyz@non-real.com.
You start receiving messages from XYZ… then later XYZ sells your email address (someone-xyz@non-real.com) to a spam artist.
So you just log into the service and delete the email alias for someone-xyz@non-real.com now you don’t have to contend with all that junk mail.

I read about this about 5 years ago, but have since forgotten the provider.
Any ideas?

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:33:53 +0000

Of course this is for boobs. Actually this works very well for WordPress.com users, or anyone else who does not have access to actual backend code.

By: Thomas J. Brown

Thomas J. Brown — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:02:29 +0000

I guess this is meant for people who have their own websites, but are n00bs, because yeah, I’m pretty sure a PHP form does exactly that.

By: dan davies

dan davies — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:03:57 +0000

Does a simple PHP contact form not do the same thing?