Sneakemail

[taxlady]

I've just signed up for something called Sneakemail. It lets you make up a unique email address to give websites and online stores (one for each place you give your email addy). They won't see your real email address, but the email gets forwarded to you. Then, if you start getting spam, you can figure out who gave out your email addy. You can even reply to any legitimate email and have it look like the unique email addy made up by Sneakemail.

I'm doing some tests, to make sure just exactly what the headers look like with the sneakemail addresses. I'm having a hard time remembering all the stuff you can add and what it is called. You have labels and phrases and keywords and notes and rules. It all looks very nifty. I checked the headers. I even sent some stuff from PegasusMail and it didn't show my real email addy, just "sneakemail censored" and some numbers, in the full headers.

Comments

fake addresses and street signs.

[tfofurn.livejournal.com]

Sneakemail is definitely a good start. I have my web site give out a different address (http://feedmyego.com/cgi-bin/contact.cgi) every time someone asks. I also make up an address, including the company name, whenever asked to give an address. I still lack the fake addresses for replies part.

An unrelated question, since you are in Quebec. I was just in Montreal last week and saw a street sign that I couldn't parse. What's the icon with the horizontal line with two lollipops hanging from it? By lollipop I mean a straight line with a circle at the end. In this case, the lollipops were each at a 45-degree angle from the horizontal line. It looked like a very abstract bicycle, or perhaps a skateboard. Whatever it was, it was forbidden where I saw it.

Re: fake addresses and street signs.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

The road sign you are describing sounds vaguely familiar. I looked it up in the book I bought when I was studying for my driver's license and it isn't listed, so I can't help.

Re: fake addresses and street signs.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

We finally saw that sign again and figured it out. The sign is usually on a building. It means that there is a connection for a fire hose. The sign is usually right near where the fire hose connection sticks out of the building. It actually looks a bit like the connector. All of those fire hose connector thingees, that I have seen, have room for two fire hoses. They branch like a Y from the wall. Does that make any sense?

Re: fake addresses and street signs.

[tfofurn.livejournal.com]

Whoa! OK, so the one I saw was alerting firefighters that the particular building lacked hose hookups? Thanks for remembering this more than a year later!

Re: fake addresses and street signs.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

Yesterday, when I was reading old entries in my journal, I came across your question and we had just figured it out. That question had been bugging me. It actually alerts the firefighters that the particular building does have the hookup and that it is near the sign.