Terminal Addict

Digg does not allow disposable email addresses
Have been hearing a lot of good things about Digg.COM lately, so I decided to go check it out. The site looked interesting and I thought I'd register and give it a shot. As always, I created a disposable email address for Digg.COM at Sneakemail.COM, my favourite disposable email service. Everything was fine until I tried to register and Digg threw up this message:

That email cannot be used. Please enter another address.

Just to make sure this is not a mistake, I tried with another disposable email address, this time from SpamGourmet.COM. Same results. Hmm.. interesting. Maybe I'm just suspicious, but why would a website care if I'm using a disposable address? The only reason I can think of is the one services like Sneakemail and SpamGourmet are designed to thwart.. businesses selling my email address. Digg's privacy policy has this interesting nugget:

Business Transfers:
In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types
of transactions, user information is typically one of the business
assets that is transferred. Moreover, if Digg, or substantially all
of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the
assets that is transferred.

I can understand user information being transferred if Digg is bought over, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with user information being typically one of the business assets that is transferred in case Digg decides to sell some assets. I'm not a lawyer, but wouldn't a spammer offering money for Digg's email address database qualify as a "business transfer" where Digg could choose to sell user information assets? Quite infra digg, if you ask me. I guess I'm just paranoid, but I won't be registering with Digg anytime soon.