third party email (keeping spam away from friends)

[nsomos]

You're surfing and read an interesting article that you
would love to email to a friend. There is a submit box for
'email this article'. You are about to enter that address
when you think .... do I trust these people???

Your friend may not be signed up for spamgourmet yet.

Wouldn't it be great if there were some way that you could
in a spam-gourmet like fashion give a synthetic address
(which would have the real address within somehow) that would
prevent abuse of the address you give?

Well, if you are surfing the web, it shouldn't be too hard to
go over to spamgourmet.com and ask to send a message from
one of your disposable addresses, enter your friends email as
the address you want to send to, and then use the dynamically
generated address to put into the address box of the submit form.

I guess I am uncertain if spamgourmet will only allow a
certain number of emails sent to that address to go to my
friend? If there is no such limit, then a feature that generates
such addresses which DO have such a limit would be in order.

[jbs]

Just so I'm clear -- are you talking about creating an address-masking address, and then having the newspaper site (for example) send to THAT address, which will cause it to come through SpamGourmet and end up at your friend's address, appearing to come from your own?

If it were limited, that would actually be kind of nice. What I generally do is just use my own spamgourmet address, send it to myself, and then forward the email to the friend. This also lets the friend know (as your method would) that you're not out plastering their email in every web form you find.

--Jason

[josh]

I really want that feature too -- it's the potential for abuse that keeps us from implementing it -- that is, we haven't come up with a good way to prevent people from abusing it yet. When we do, it'll go in for sure.

[Woodson]

You could make such addresses one-time affairs, use once-and-discard. Create a buddy list with a size (people/email addresses) limit. Email will forward to addresses on the buddy list.

[Guest]

You're surfing and read an interesting article that you
would love to email to a friend. There is a submit box for
'email this article'. You are about to enter that address
when you think .... do I trust these people???

Your friend may not be signed up for spamgourmet yet.

Wouldn't it be great if there were some way that you could
in a spam-gourmet like fashion give a synthetic address
(which would have the real address within somehow) that would
prevent abuse of the address you give?

As the potential "friend" mentioned above, I'd prefer you didn't have that fantastic website e-mail me, even through spamgourmet. If I see a message, probably HTML, probably huge, from an address I don't recognize, I'm likely to discard it without even opening it.

Instead, just email me the URL. Use your own address. I'll see at a glance that it came from you and read the message. If I'm interested in the site I can go visit it myself with the link you sent. I won't have to wonder whether you've written my name on some electronic bathroom wall, possibly pay for a large email I didn't want (some of us actually pay for email service), and, if I'm interested, want to go visit the site anyway.

Simpler and better, IMHO.

[prolixity]

As the potential "friend" mentioned above, I'd prefer you didn't have that fantastic website e-mail me, even through spamgourmet. If I see a message, probably HTML, probably huge, from an address I don't recognize, I'm likely to discard it without even opening it.

Instead, just email me the URL. Use your own address.

I'm no great fan of people signing me up for stuff either. I chastize the sender and then provide them one of my SG addresses for this very purpose. I say something along the lines

[11 char summary][yymmdd]x4z.reading.myaddress03943@spamgourmet.com

I use watchword enforce and set one as x4z. Should I tire of signups I can simply change the watchword

What I generally do is just use my own spamgourmet address, send it to myself,

me too.