Sometimes you want to try out a piece of software or obtain a white paper or gain access to some content stored on the web and in exchange for access to this content you are asked to enter your email address. In the cases where you know the company and are sure they will abide by their "no spamming" or "no passing on your email address" policy then by all means enter your email address. For years I have always entered my active email address and have paid the price by now probably appearing on every spam list sold around the world.

10 Minute mail generates a random email account when you land on their page and is only valid for 10 minutes... So you can jump in, gain access to the content you are after and determine if it is worth committing your real email to.

I am definately not suggesting that you use this to circumvent any registration process that involves paying for a service. When something is promoted as free, you should be able to access it without fear of your email being aggregated for the benefit of an email list selling entity. Reputable software companies that I write about in this blog don't fall into that category.

Thanks to Adam from our team for this tip.

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