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?"

Comments

isn't it obvious?

[Lord Bitman]

how many people fill out bill.g@microsoft.com (or something similar)
the answer is "yes", move along.

Re:This is what example.com is for

[magarity]

My favourite: president_gore@whitehouse.gov

A much much more apropriate one in a that genre is bill_clinton@whitehouse.com.