Have you ever hit an uber-informative website only to find that you need to register before you can read the content? More than likely this sources of all knowledge is going to require you to enter the one sacred piece of information that must be guarded above all other things… okay not really. Your email address is not that secret, but in order to prevent yourself from getting spammed off the face of the internet you should really be careful what “master lists” your address gets added to. For many sites in this category you are required to provide a valid email address that the website will use to send confirmation information about your registration. Once that email is received you have access to the site.
You may just need to get some quick information and have no ambitions of having this website send you updates or “please buy this” messages. Here is your solution. Use a temporary email address that is created by sites such as 10MinuteMail. An email address, that contains no personal information about you, is created on the fly. You have access to view the messages sent to that email account for 10 minutes (you can also extend in 10 minute increments). Once you receive the email that you need simply let the email address expire and it is deleted automatically.
You have killed two birds with one stone: gained registration to a website for content and protected your true email address from spammers. Until next time explore… experience… and enlighten.