====== spamgourmet goes All-You-Can-Eat ======

I had a [[http://www.spamgourmet.com/|spamgourmet]] account for quite some time now, and always found it to be a handy service. The idea is simple: You register the email address you want to protect (or rather forwarded to) and an associated username and then can give out disposable, self-destructing email addresses of the format ''%%<someid>.<limit>.<username>@spamgourmet.com%%'', where ''someid'' is an id for a specific disposable address and ''limit'' defines the number of emails to let through before self-destruction.

I have used these addresses at "You have to register before..." stuff on the internet, like forums where I just had to do a quick search for something that demanded registration and other one-visit-that's-it-stops and never had issues.

But just now I received my first ever spam over my spam gourmet address, by some stupid adult side. The spammer used part of the site's domainname as ''someid'' and used a limit of 2 to inform me of wonderful special offerings in the world of porn((wow... porn... on the internet... what a surprise)). Given such wonderful services like [[http://www.mailinator.com|mailinator]] that exist these days and the fact that the average mailaddress is overrun by spam anyway, it's no big issue that spamgourmet just lost it's appeal thanks to those f***ing spammers, but I found it remarkable nevertheless and was rather surprised to see this.

{{tag>spam spamgourmet argh}}

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