I built it because of a need and it's worked fabulously. It's hands down doubled my monthly affiliate revenue (i.e. to be clear, that's in the 4 figures).
I think where it failed however is that it's really hard to explain and I sure haven't cracked it. I get a few signups a day, few use it at all.
It's not for everyone - but it definitely works for me and it would work for anyone in the same boat (someone who needs to affiliatize hundreds/thousands of outgoing links)
Yes, we sent the inbox to a blackhole but keep in mind, Mailinator does not and can not actually "Send" any email.
It's a receive-only service. As always, any email "from" @mailinator.com has had it's reply-to forged (which is pretty trivial).
Also - even before we blackholed the email, it's unlikely any email in that inbox (i.e. hhhh..) was read. Each box has a 50 email limit (FIFO) which was immediately overwhelmed. You couldn't click fast enough between seeing the inbox list and clicking an email.
Mailinator is simply a "receiver" in all of this but we have no indication our servers were otherwise involved.
I built it because of a need and it's worked fabulously. It's hands down doubled my monthly affiliate revenue (i.e. to be clear, that's in the 4 figures).
I think where it failed however is that it's really hard to explain and I sure haven't cracked it. I get a few signups a day, few use it at all.
It's not for everyone - but it definitely works for me and it would work for anyone in the same boat (someone who needs to affiliatize hundreds/thousands of outgoing links)