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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
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?