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Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go?
ajain writes "Maybe a year and a half back or so, I started using someone@somewhere.com as a dummy email id in online blogs, guestboks, forums, and sundry pages. But then I started wondering what if someone actually tried to email me on that email address. I was sure that it would bounce because I assumed that there wouldn't be an actual email address like that. In any case, just for fun, I decided to google on someone@somewhere.com. And lo behold, there are some 4090 results! I have written a small article at my blog and a reader says NoOne@NoWhere.com is another contender. Do you use some common dummy email IDs too, to get around the privacy problem online? Isn't there a potential for malicious misuse of someone's email ID in this way?"
how many people fill out bill.g@microsoft.com (or something similar)
the answer is "yes", move along.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
I usually use support@microsoft.com
You can't legislate goodness. Let each to his own destiny, by will of his freely made choices.
sadfd@afds.com
Back in the day there was a web site, anti-social.com that gave out free email @anti-social.com. So I grabbed letthemdie@anti-social.com and used that whenever I had to give an address to something I didn't want to give an address to, just to be an ass.
The original Anti-social.com faded away in the mid-90's. It's rather interesting to note that now, when I point my browser to anti-social.com it redirects me to the offical Bush-Cheney '04 blog. How bizzare. What's up with that?
I usually use webmaster@, and I check all of the "Email me adverts for all this shit!" boxes, too. Let that teach 'em to harvest emails for spam!
I usually sign up with the adress of people I hate. Right now it's that smelly boy in 5th grade who never would shut up about his baseball card collection.
... i still have to ask a guy named Donald working for Disney and a guy named Dubya working at the whitehouse, if they ever received any mail for me.
karma police: arrest this man, he talks in maths; he buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio. [radiohead]
Right, posting about your mail bombing exploits to innocent AOL customers is the perfect way to get respct and karma around here. Let alone you did it in VB.
Maybe a year and a half back or so, I started using someone@somewhere.com as a dummy email id in online blogs, guestboks, forums, and sundry pages. But then I started wondering what if someone actually tried to email me on that email address.
So.... you're the jackass who clogged up my mailbox with all this crap. Thanks alot, pal!
I usually use the email of an ex-boss that I hate.
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
asdf@asdf.com - 1,640.
:)
And my personal favorite:
aoeu@aoeu.com - 1. I guess the illiterate spammers living in trailer parks can't understand dvorak, making it more elitist and thus better
fuckyou@fuckyou.com
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
The most miserable admin on the planet surely lives here.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
I always use
o urbusiness.com
fuck@you.com
eat@me.com
blow@me.com
noneof@y
MarketingWeasels@suck.com (Sorry admin@suck.com!)
I always put 867-5309 for my phone #.
Me, too! And if I have to put a (fake) name in, it'll be (First Name) Jenny (Last Name) Jenny.
For me its no@thanks.com :^) Thought I'd be polite about it at least.
My favourite: president_gore@whitehouse.gov
A much much more apropriate one in a that genre is bill_clinton@whitehouse.com.
Yes, but the following isn't...
root@127.0.0.1
My only problem is I keep getting email from somebody named "cron".
> adding a sendmail rule to deliver mail for jrluser@psigib.com to jrluser@bigisp.com.
Only problem is his real email is resulrj@bigisp.com....
Ads are broken.
sales@real.com :D
The moral of the story: Do not create harm for some innocent third party with your spam evasion techniques. It may come back to haunt you.
No, the moral of the story is: If you're so stupid as to use a domain name that is a major isp spelled backwards, don't come back crying about the eventual spam. What's next? Your friend's going to register nospamhotmail.com and start whining about that??
It looks like the emails sent to jrluser@psigib.com were indeed intended for your friend Mike, because he is a luser.
-hadohk
blowme@gunpoint.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/nowhere.com
millions of people tell me i exaggerate ;-)
Oh dear... I can see this already.
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 555666
Are we satisfied with the length of our penis?
Symptoms: You are unsure if we at Microsoft Support are satisfied with the length of our collective penis.
Resolution: To solve the problem:
Status: Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the internet e-mail system, which thanks to our insecure e-mail apps and OSses, has gotten a lot worse than it should. Also, stupid users are to blame.
The information in this article applies to: Yourself you good for nothing spammer, Clippy.
I use god@heaven.com in cc: lines for the corporate email responses when someone adds everybody remotely related to the 'issue' to an email. When anyone does a ReplyAll, they get back an undeliverable message from god@heaven.com. In other words, HE doesn't want to hear you whining. The humour is lost on a lot of people.
When we find you, we will KICK YOUR ASS!!!!!
Sincerely,
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Is what I use,
but really, who cares anyway?
If you're going to post anonymously, don't sign your posts. Who's the luser now, dipshit?