From Email
You can use a feed to display all your announcement-only mailing lists; you can also use it as a disposable email address when you register with web sites and the like. This frees your inbox and protects your real email address from being sold to spammers.
There are two services that do this, and both are very reliable: MailBucket (http://www.mailbucket.org/) and Dodgeit (http://www.dodgeit.com/).
Both operate in the same way. You send mail to
xxx@mailbucket.org
or
xxx@dodgeit.com
, where xxx
is
your own chosen identity. There’s no sign up, so you
need to check that your chosen identity isn’t
already taken. This highlights one issue: your mail
isn’t private, so don’t use it for
things you don’t want others to see. (You could use
an incredibly unguessable identity to make such risks very unlikely.)
Once the mail starts to arrive into your inbox, it will look like Figure 3-1.
You can then subscribe to the feed at either http://www.mailbucket.org/xxx.xml or http://www.dodgeit.com/run/rss?mailbox=xxx. You will then see something like Figure 3-2 in your reader application.
Personally speaking, I think these services are the cat’s pajamas. There are many mailing lists that don’t require the ...
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