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Is easeus a scam site?
On 05/21/2018 11:20 AM, Wolf K wrote:
That's why I have four email addresses. Only four ?!?!?! I have seven! |
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Wolf K wrote:
That's why I have four email addresses. Only four? In this case I would have given them something along the lines of that scheme has flagged up a number of addresses that have been sold or stolen over the years ... |
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T wrote:
Wolf K wrote: That's why I have four email addresses. Only four ?!?!?! I have seven! I have 247 of them ... sort of, and they'll keep growing. Trust must be earned. Everyone first gets an alias. If they prove trustworthy, either the alias becomes permanent or I update them to my real e-mail address (REA). I have 3 real REAs: Microsoft, ISP, and Gmail. I was up to about 12 before I started using aliases which are better than disposable accounts. In total, I have hundreds of e-mail addresses: 3 are REAs but the rest are all aliases. Only a few aliases survive. Most aliases self-expire (sender eats up the max use count for an alias - and I don't bother to renew it), many I've killed before expiration (reduced their use count to zero and hide them), and only a few aliases survive either by me renewing their expiration count or by setting an exclusive sender to use them (only that sender or domain can get through the alias without the usage count getting decremented to zero which kills the alias). I create aliases on-the-fly. Because I may later contact the same sender but want to give them a new alias, I add a datestamp to the alias (so the next new alias gets a new datestamp and I don't have to bother with overlapping and updating an old and possibly expired alias with them); for example, every time I want to leave a review at download.com (CNET), I create a new alias, like cnet052118. Putting their name in the alias helps me track to whom it was given (so I know who violated my trust if the alias gets abused) and optionally I can go into my Spamgourmet (SG) account to add a comment for an alias. No need to login to the SG aliasing service. I do have to login should I want an alias to be semi-permanent and non-expiring for a sender that has proven themself: set the alias to allow only for the exclusive sender (and I can use regex to cover multiple e-mail addresses they may use). SG is free but probably has a max use quota which is far above my mail traffic volume. There are similar paid aliasing services. I have 125 aliases. Only 9 have survived from senders that proved themselves trustworthy (or they were given my REA and the alias was no longer needed). Before Craigslist switched to using SG for keeping private the e-mail addresses of sellers and buyers, I used an SG account to use aliases when I sold, bought, or inquired at Craigslist. There are TONS of forwarding services to let you hide your REA when receiving incoming e-mails from untrusted senders. Those don't protect your REA on a reply to an aliased e-mail. A true aliasing service lets you send your replies back through thier aliasing service to keep your REA hidden. See my reply to Nauta. |
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On Mon, 21 May 2018 14:20:38 -0400, Wolf K
wrote: On 2018-05-21 14:03, Fokke Nauta wrote: On 21/05/2018 19:33, T wrote: [...] I had forgotten I had downloaded a demo from them That's the nasty bit of most companies. They all want your e-mail address and keep bothering you with bargains and special offers. Unsuscribe is the only remedy. Fokke That's why I have four email addresses. One only for family and friends. One for general public, eg, volunteer groups, casual acquaintances, etc. One for business. And one just for on-line transactions. Bugmenot and Mailinator.com are useful for avoiding spammishness. Mailinator allows for the generation of single-company related throwaway email addys. Bugmenot is useful for sites that "require" a login but whom you don't quite trust. There are other little tools of a similar kind. Mand. Best, |
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Liefbowitz wrote: Bugmenot and Mailinator.com are useful for avoiding spammishness. except that a lot of companies have caught on that and block users from using them. |
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On 05/21/2018 03:20 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
I have 247 of them ¡Ay, caramba! |
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T wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: I have 247 of them ¡Ay, caramba! Out of 244 aliases, only 9 are currently active. That is, the other 235 have self-expired or were killed by me after they were no longer applicable or they got abused. So, at present, I have 3 REAs (real email addresses) and 9 aliases (with each set to exclusively allow only one sender that has proven trustworthy). Sometimes it is easier to continue using an non-expiring exclusive-sender alias than to update the sender to use my REA. |
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