If you've ever registered for
a website, only to be inundated with unwanted e-mails, leaving you
suspicious that your address has been sold to the highest bidder,
you'll appreciate a new service that promises to protect your inbox.
Mailshell is an
Internet-based filtering program that prevents spam by allowing you
to create an unlimited number of disposable e-mail addresses, while
forwarding relevant e-mails to your current address, which remains
private.
By creating a new e-mail address for each site you visit (e.g.,
amazon@johndoe.mailshell.com when you shop at Amazon.com), you can
not only control junk e-mail but maintain your anonymity as well.
Once you've signed up, Mailshell provides a central hub to help you
maintain and delete your one-shot e-mail addresses, and it even
tracks which companies actually gave your address away.
Mailshell recently partnered with the online privacy-seal program
TrustE, a nonprofit association
that polices companies' privacy policies. Currently, TrustE bestows
its "trustmark" on sites that comply with its established privacy
standards -- while Mailshell helps track violations of e-mail
sharing policies.
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