When you make a purchase online, or are providing an email address to someone you don’t quite trust, it makes sense to provide a disposable email address. While it’s certainly not the only service of its kind, MailDrop is a clean, easy to use service that keeps the junk out of your real inbox.
We’ve covered similar services in the past, but MailDrop does things a little differently. For one, your inbox never expires. Most alternatives set a time limit on the inbox, or make you pay to keep it around. Since MailDrop is persistent, you can keep using the address any time you’re worried about giving out your real one.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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When you make a purchase online, or are providing an email address to someone you don’t quite trust, it makes sense to provide a disposable email address. While it’s certainly not the only service of its kind, MailDrop is a clean, easy to use service that keeps the junk out of your real inbox.
