Each year I sign up on dozens of online sites. I try to manage the amount of potential spam I receive by using my free email account on sites I find questionable. Lately, thanks to my friend Craig, I have been turned on to a new trick.

What Craig did was buy his own URL. They are literally $14 for two years. If you use GoDaddy (and many others), you get a free email box.

Doesn’t sound like much of a solution, does it? What Craig then does is make that a “catch-all” box, meaning anything@craigsurl.com lands in this box. He then proceeds to signup at sites using their name @ craigsurl.com

So, if he signed up for this blog, he would use getsafensecure@craigsurl.com Then these emails would land in his general box with this site’s name on it.

What this allows him to do is at least see where the leak is in his circle of trust.  Perhaps then he could spread the word.  Plus, if he started getting Viagra emails to getsafensecure@craigsurl.com, I would have  some splainin to do.

Be safe, Ray