Pookmail Service Is Worth A Look

I’m always admonishing my readers to set up a ‘throw-away’ e-mail address if they are planning to send any ‘friendly comments’ to spammers or sign up for newsletters or other services on the net that require an e-mail address.

With a throw-away e-mail address, that you can get free from many places like Yahoo! or Hotmail, you can discard the e-mail address when the volume of SPAM being sent to it exceeds your tolerance level. You can simply sign up again with a new throw-away e-mail address if you are subscribed to any newsletters or mailing lists that you actually want to continue receiving.

There is a service called PookMail that may make things even easier for you.

You can sign up free with PookMail, and create your own PookMail e-mail address, and use that as your throw-away e-mail address.

The only problem that comes to mind right away is that PookMail addresses will become well known as throw-away e-mail addresses, and a lot of places that require e-mail address registration will begin to reject PookMail addresses.

In that case, I suspect that the PookMail folks could simply register a bunch of other domain names to offer to their users until the e-mail collectors wise up to that, and then the cycle would probably repeat itself.

Using a more typical throw-away e-mail address (like Yahoo! or Hotmail) will probably help avoid that problem, although I have occasionally run into sites that do not accept e-mail addresses from domains that are well-known as free e-mail service providers.

However, many of the larger ISPs like Comcast are now offering multiple e-mail addresses for each customer that can easily be created and deleted via a web-based control panel.

Since there is no way anyone demanding your e-mail address could reject an e-mail address associated with a major ISP (like Comcast), without turning away many legitimate registrations, it is very unlikely that you will have trouble using a throw-away e-mail address like that.

At any rate, PookMail looks like it is offering a quick and simple solution to those seeking a throw-away e-mail address. It’s probably well worth a try.