There are very few applications for this. Indeed, this code falls under the heading passive resistance. But, imagine this circumstance:
- You are required to send real emails
- to collections of digitally-real but otherwise NON-real persons
- at legitimate email addresses
- after which the email is automagically destroyed (making the digital environment cleaner).
Mailinator.com is the perfect site for this.
I wrote up this little R language function to be able to generate variants on a name and a corresponding disposable email address at mailinator.com. You can then copy/paste email addresses into the required interface.
The command to call this function takes this form:
fake.email('firstname', 'lastname', '@mailinator.com', z)
And, here's what all that means:
- where pissant (in single quotes) can be any first name
- where face (in single quotes) can be any last name
- where @mailinator.com can be any domain
- (but mailinator will validate a received response and then destroy the email - which is the point.)
- and z is the number of such name / email combos you want generated
Thus: fake.email("pissant","face", "@mailinator", 25)
Yields:
fake.email("pissant","face", "@mailinator", 25) [1] "pissant.face1" [1] "pissantface1@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face2" [1] "pissantface2@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face3" [1] "pissantface3@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face4" [1] "pissantface4@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face5" [1] "pissantface5@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face6" [1] "pissantface6@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face7" [1] "pissantface7@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face8" [1] "pissantface8@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face9" [1] "pissantface9@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face10" [1] "pissantface10@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face11" [1] "pissantface11@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face12" [1] "pissantface12@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face13" [1] "pissantface13@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face14" [1] "pissantface14@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face15" [1] "pissantface15@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face16" [1] "pissantface16@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face17" [1] "pissantface17@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face18" [1] "pissantface18@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face19" [1] "pissantface19@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face20" [1] "pissantface20@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face21" [1] "pissantface21@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face22" [1] "pissantface22@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face23" [1] "pissantface23@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face24" [1] "pissantface24@mailinator" [1] "pissant.face25" [1] "pissantface25@mailinator"
Well, I'm sure you're bored by all this, so I'll leave it at those 25. I will confess that some personal animosity caused the creation of this script, though I will leave off describing the story behind that. Only to say that this sscript has been very useful to me 1 time per year, saves face for myself and friends, and avoids punitive events.
To do this, you will need to download either R or R Studio. You probably have little use for this language unless you do statistics. To download R go here. To download R Studio, go here:.