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Message from the Founder

Hi, and welcome to VirtID. I'm Dr. Andrew Burt, CEO of TechSoft, a computer science professor, founder of the world's first free Internet service, and purveyor of other Internet oddities. I created VirtID Email because, well, I was getting too much spam. I've had some of my email addresses for a while and I don't want to change them: I like them, people won't be able to find me, and I hate to let the spammers win. Yet the longer you have an address, the more spam it attracts -- it only gets worse over time.

Every time you give out an email address you risk getting spam. Everyone wants an email address these days -- when buying something, signing up to read an article, get newsletters, join mailing lists, get rewards cards, enter a blog comment, register a product warranty, receive bills, get rebates, enter contests, make dinner reservations... And you never know what will happen to the email address you give them: They might sell it to spammers (or their "legitimate" marketing buddies), hackers steal it from them to bombard you with spam, viruses, or identity theft emails, or the company itself might simply get over eager in bugging you with "special offers." Phooey!

Spam filters aren't up to the task. They let too much spam through and send too much real mail to the spam bucket. They certainly can't detect when some company sells your email address.

One email address can get overwhelmed, and what can you do? Changing your email address is a major pain. You have to tell all the legitimate people and organizations your new one. Then it just starts over again and you get email you don't want, because everyone has your same address.

I tried setting up a free account or two with the likes of Yahoo, Hotmail, Google mail, and so on -- but then you have to log in there to check them all the time, and I kept forgetting. I want my real email in my real mailbox. I want the junk somewhere else. And if someplace turns into a spigot of spam, I want to turn off the address they use -- without changing my email address everywhere else in the universe.

So I began creating one unique email address for each sender. Each of these forwarded to my real mail box, and I could turn them off when I wanted. Then I tinkered and added a feature to deny mail if it wasn't sent by the organization I gave permission to, and voila! VirtID Emails were born.

I'm hooked now. I give out unique addresses every time I sign up somewhere. I keep a few spares in my wallet to give out. And, hoorah, my mailbox doesn't fill up with spam now.

I showed my friends and they wanted to use it too, so I thought I'd share it with the world. I hope you find it as useful as I have.