May 15, 2003

throwaway account

n.

1. An inexpensive Internet account purchased on a legitimate ISP for the sole purpose of spewing spam.

2. An inexpensive Internet account obtained for the sole purpose of doing something which requires a valid email address but being able to ignore spam since the user will not look at the account again.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:26 AM

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