Mailinator

Podcast – ITRT Happenings

Mailinator.com – Let them eat spam! Mailinator is a website that allows for all students to have a valid email address with no registration or sign-up necessary. There are number of web 2.0 websites that require those that sign up to have a working email address prior to giving them full access to the site. For example, google docs, wikispaces, and prezi all send an email verification to those that sign up before allowing them to create products on their site. When a student registers at one of these sites, they just need to type in a mailinator email address that they can create on the fly. For example, I could type [e-mail] when registering at a site. The naming conventions are limitless – I could use [e-mail] or [e-mail] or [e-mail]. To check my inbox all I need to do is go to mailinator.com and type the email address that I used when regestering at the site in the dialogue box that reads: “Check your inbox!” (see below):

Once I click GO! I can check my email without ever having created or registered for an email account. Mailinator encourages people to use their mailinator email address as often as possible. Use it in webforms. Post it on forums. Use it any time you need an email address, but don’t want to be slowed down by the sign-up process or spammed for eternity. This is a great product that does what it says it does.

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