SpamBob.net's Demise and Rebirth
Awhile back, the SpamBob website provided the capability for users to create
email addresses on the fly. This was really useful for online registrations,
especially for those sites that did not support the "plus addressing" feature
that some email servers allow. I used the SpamBob service for quite a few email
addresses during the time it was in operation. If I had known that it would not
be around that long, I would not have used it. When they quit operation, I was
stuck with a lot of registrations for various sites that I could not change the
email address on because they needed to send confirmation emails to my previous
SpamBob email address. I recently noticed that the SpamBob.net domain had been
allowed to expire, so I decided to purchase it so that I could retrieve any
emails that were sent to my SpamBob email addresses from now on. I am not providing
this capability as a commercial service, I just did it for my own use. If someone
else needs to reactivate their SpamBob.net email address, I would be willing to do
it for $2.00 per email address. I did not purchase the SpamBob.com or the SpamBob.org
domains, so if you were using email addresses from those domains, I can't help you.
If you are interested in this, contact me at:
admin-581 (at) spambob (dot) net
You can also use PayPal to initiate the payment and it will send me a message
with your desired user ID and password if you fill in the following form:
Some people have asked me why I charge if I'm going to charge so little and since PayPal ends up
taking a good portion of it. The reason is that I'm doing this all manually (i.e. there are
not automated scripts handling it) and by doing it this way, only the people who really need it
will do it. The people who are looking for free email accounts will just go to hotmail.com, gmail.com,
or wherever. This is strictly done as a favor for those of us who were left in a lurch by the
demise of spambob.net.
So, if you really need your spambob.net account to be recreated, I can do it. Just use the above
PayPal form. You'll receive a 50M POP3 email account with whatever email address you specify. To prevent
it from filling up and your email bouncing, I would suggest that you periodically log in, download your email,
and delete the old email off the server. Spam is usually fairly small, so 50M should last a pretty good amount
of time so you should have to check and delete it every day.
