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My present "garbage site" practice is to pop open a session to mailinator.com to a randomly generated box name.

Mailinator will give an alternate address that's a hash of the first, so that the address itself cannot be used to check. See below.

I'll create a set of long passwords (20-30 characters) with pwgen. Those are input as name, email, and password fields (different for each). If I need to verify an email, I can.

I don't record the values, they're throwaway.

If the site rejects 'mailinator.com', there are other domains provided as alternates.

Example: inache8baezo0aowahph@mailinator.com is also

    m8r-ds4te4@mailinator.com
    inache8baezo0aowahph@mailinator.com
    inache8baezo0aowahph@mailtothis.com
(or m8r-ds4te4 at the other domains)

The 'm8r' address can't be used to check for mail.

Note, obviously, that anyone with the actual mailbox hash can check it. For example: http://mailinator.com/inbox.jsp?to=facebook

Oh, there's even an RSS mailbox subscription, neat: http://www.mailinator.com/feed?to=



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