Image by Getty Images via DaylifeOne of the nastiest side effects of using e-mail is the potential for abuse. We've all been there; you sign up to some web service or other and shortly you are bombarded with spam from destinations far and near.
OtherInbox addresses(!) this problem by giving you your own sub-domain, such as fredflinstone.otherinbox.com. You then create as many e-mail addresses as you can eat like fred@fredflinstone.otherinbox.com, wilma@fredflinstone.otherinbox.com and pebbles@fredflinstone.otherinbox.com. These addresses are then automatically sorted into folders in your OtherInbox web interface. If you start receiving spam simply block that address. The addresses don't need to be pre-assigned and you can create a new address for every web site without setting it up beforehand.
This is a cheap way of managing your e-mail. And yes, I know that you can use the same trick with your own domain (I've done it myself for a couple of years) but this takes away the technical knowledge required and makes it available for everyone.
OtherInbox addresses(!) this problem by giving you your own sub-domain, such as fredflinstone.otherinbox.com. You then create as many e-mail addresses as you can eat like fred@fredflinstone.otherinbox.com, wilma@fredflinstone.otherinbox.com and pebbles@fredflinstone.otherinbox.com. These addresses are then automatically sorted into folders in your OtherInbox web interface. If you start receiving spam simply block that address. The addresses don't need to be pre-assigned and you can create a new address for every web site without setting it up beforehand.
This is a cheap way of managing your e-mail. And yes, I know that you can use the same trick with your own domain (I've done it myself for a couple of years) but this takes away the technical knowledge required and makes it available for everyone.
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Hello Tony,
Thanks for writing about OtherInbox on your blog. The TC50 conference in San Francisco earlier this month was a great forum to launch our new service to the public and we were really honored to be chosen to participate. We’d like to invite you to join our private beta that we announced at the conference, and we’re happy to extend the invitation to your readers as well! Because we’re in private beta, you need to have a special URL to sign up. This URL will work for 26 invitations (one for you and 25 for your readers) if you want to post as a followup on your blog.
http://beta.otherinbox.com/signup/0264e
Please let us know if you have any questions about the service. Thanks again!
~ The OtherInbox Team
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