Use Alias Email Addresses Responsibly
There continues to rage, a strong mutual dislike between forum administrators, and managers of disposable email addresses.
Many people are fearful that a forum will use their email address for malicious purposes, or will not respect the confidentiality of the address. These people will use a temporary, or disposable address to shield and protect themselves from some potential buse.
Forum administrators however, specifically those that are ethical, are troubled by this process, because their mailing list is of questionable accuracy. They waste time and resources sending out emails to those they think are legitimally interested in receiving them.
So it is easy to see both sides of this arguement.
Soodonims CAN be used as a disposable address, or as a PERMANENT alias to a protected address. We strongly encourage the responsible use of our alias addresses.
We suggest that if you use Soodonims to sign up to a forum, and then do not wish to be a member, that you firstly try to unsubscribe. If the admin is legitimate, your mail will cease and the forum owner will no longer spin their wheels sending you content you will never receive. A win-win.
If the site is less than ethical, and after unsubscribing you still receive emails, at THAT time you can disable the alias email address via Soodonims control panel and be done with it!
Soodonims is a great way to control what’s in your inbox. But please, be fair and act responsibly!
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There is a very good reason why alias email addresses are necessary, and why forum administrators have to accept that they are necessary. Help Net Security recently published a short note on this very point; relevant fragments are given below, as is the URL of the full article.
Have you been hacked this month?
by Steve Watts – IT security expert, SecurEnvoy – Wednesday, 24 August 2011.
I’m assuming the majority of people are sitting smugly reading this thinking ‘of course I haven’t!’
You do everything you’re supposed to do, right? You’ve installed a firewall, you’ve got some anti-virus software, you never follow links in emails or open attachments from someone you don’t know or trust. Well, that’s all very commendable but unfortunately it isn’t you that’s been hacked. It’s your information stored by the companies you trust that’s been compromised.
Since the start of this year, globally, there have been 365 data loss incidents involving 126,727, 474 records. According to research by Juniper Research, 90% of organizations have suffered data breaches in one form or another over the past 12 months. Testament to this is the number of household brands that have inadvertently divulged the information of hundreds of individuals:…
We conservatively estimate that the average family’s personal information has been breached 10 times since June.
What organizations fail to grasp is that, each time your record is breached, organized cyber criminals are piecing together bits of information about you, your habits, and that of your family’s that together creates a complete picture.
There will be some that argue – what can be done with an email address? Well, a criminal could spoof you into responding to a phishing email purported to be from the bank you use or the store you shop at.
http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1619
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