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Hotmail email addresses gain temporary alias's in effort to fight spam & junk
04/02/11
Hotmail email addresses gain temporary alias's
05:11:11 pm by drf, Categories: News , Tags: add on, address, alias, email, hotmail, microsoft, plugin, signup, spam, use Hotmail email addresses gain temporary alias's, only what we been using Hotmail accounts for anyhow since the door of time. The new ability gives users temp addresses linked into 1 account that would be usefull for sign ups and other things. I guess this means 1 Hotmail account can be used as a even bigger dump than before, saves signing up over and over I guess.
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Temporary email addresses for dodgy sites
Microsoft announced that the firm's web mail service Hotmail has gained the ability to create additional email addresses within the same Hotmail account.
The feature is aimed at providing a way that users can give temporary alias email addresses to third parties such as signing up to web sites, mitigating the chance of having an email address capture by spammers.
Emails to the aliases can be configured to appear in a private folder. Microsoft said that Hotmail users are now able to add five email aliases per year to each hotmail account.
"Let’s say you’re in the market for a new car. There are a bunch of websites that will email you price quotes, sales alerts, etc. During your car search, these messages are helpful," said Microsoft Windows Live boss Dharmesh Mehta on the Windows Live Blog.
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