If you're ever worried about giving out your e-mail address on a web site, AddressGuard is for you. Instead of leaving your address open to spam, you can use a disposable e-mail address, while still accessing all your mail in one place.

You can create up to 50 disposable addresses with SBC Yahoo! Mail. Use these when you want to give an e-mail address to a site that you suspect might share or sell it. Create several if you shop at different places and want to have a different e-mail address for each store, mailing list, etc. You can view messages sent to each of your disposable addresses in your Inbox or a folder that you designate.

Each disposable address has two parts: a base name and a keyword. The base name is an alpha-numeric series that you establish like, 'spam_me_not41'. The keyword is usually something that identifies the location at which you used the address like, 'dell' or 'amazon'. Scroll down to the 'How AddressGuard Works' section of this page for a detailed description of these addresses.

If you trust an online vendor or information site with one of these addresses and they share or sell it, you get spammed. If this happens, you simply go to the AddressGuard page for your SBC Yahoo! mail and delete the offending address. Problem solved.

All disposable email addresses will take the form

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If you are not using SBC Yahoo! dial or DSL Internet services This is only available to you with Yahoo! Mail Plus service which is a pay to play service. By the way if you aren't using broadband Internet services, you might want to take a look at this article .

If you use the Internet for business or pleasure or school or anything else you should seriously consider a broadband connection. As you know, time is the only asset you can never replace and that is something that a broadband connection can save a lot of.