I’ve used services such as Mailinator in the past to get a temporary, disposable e-mail address when I didn’t want to give out my actual e-mail address. But what about when you don’t want to give out your phone nubmer? Well, Craigsnumber is a service that will give you a phone nubmer that automatically forwards to your real phone number and expires after either one hour, day or week (your choice).
Why use a service such as this. One suggestion is when you’re trying to sell or give away something on Craig’s List and you don’t want people calling you after the item is long gone. This is probably something I’ll be doing in the next two months in preparation for my move to NE, so I’m thinking I’ll give it a try. I’ll report the results when I have them.
Michael Sauers is the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “Disposable phone numbers”
William Gibson gets closer. Now for a disposable phone good for for 30 minutes – Tokyo to LA. (“All Tomorrow’s Parties”? I forget)
William Gibson gets closer. Now for a disposable phone good for for 30 minutes – Tokyo to LA. (“All Tomorrow’s Parties”? I forget)