Talk:Disposable email address/Archives/2019

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Unsupported terminology

This article covers both email addresses used for relay to (1) avoid spam (by simply deleting the whole email address if it gets spammed), (2) improve email categorization (by sub-addressing) and (3) improve privacy (by avoiding linking of two accounts on two services belonging to the same person) and (4) addresses used to circumvent anti-spam techniques (described as "restrictions by site administrators). I believe these are all widely different use cases that should not be put in the same article.

Also, the terminology "Disposable email addressing, also known as DEA or dark mail" in the header is not cited at all and I have some doubts about its widespread use. I believe terms like "temporary email" and "relay email" or are much more common.

Anton.bersh (talk) 21:40, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

PS: We can measure the popularity of a term by the number of results returned by Google Search. I just Googled "Disposable email" -- 162M results, and "temporary email" -- 552M results, 3.7 times more. Anton.bersh (talk) 21:47, 15 June 2019 (UTC)