Getting Over Forums Who Insist on ISP mail

Hello Snaffler,

My friend came up with a real ingenious solution to the problem of spam and being tied into an ISP for your email address:

Claim a domain name. There are many companies out there where you can get a domain name and set up your email in conjunction with your domain name.

When you claim a domain name, you get ALL the email addresses associated with it. So if you get the domain name snaffler.co.uk - you'll own all email addresses that end in @snaffler.co.uk. All email sent to addresses ending in @snaffler.co.uk will end up in your main inbox unless you set up rules and filters.

The benefit to this, with the fight against Spam, is that for every service you use - use a different email address:

If you sign up for an online movie service, use the email address: movie@snaffler.co.uk

For your online groceries:
Groceries@snaffler.co.uk

For the online competition:
Competition@snaffler.co.uk

When you start receiving a lot of spam addressed to your movie@snaffler.co.uk address, you know the online movie retailer has sold your address to a third party and you simply create a rule to filter all e-mails addressed to movie@snaffler.co.uk to a deleted items folder.

I hope that makes sense!

Kind regards,
Samara