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Hi JadeBN, you're right spamgourmet is very similar to nBox. Here are a few differences:

- With spamgourmet the addresses are designed to expire after X emails, so it's intended for services you don't care about. - Once I know one spamgourmet address, I can try to guess other addresses of yours. - We don't ask for your personal email. If spamgourmet gets hacked, spammers will get your information.

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Thank you for the reply; I think that this is a useful description of the advantages of your service. Just for purposes of completely accurate comparison, though:

> - With spamgourmet the addresses are designed to expire after X emails, so it's intended for services you don't care about.

This is configureable; it can be turned off entirely (allowing a trusted sender to send an unlimited number of e-mails to an address), or the allowance can be 'refreshed' (so that, after, say, 5 e-mails sent to an address, you can allow 5 more as a further probation).

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