Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 11, 2004 @02:52AM from the but-what-does-it-mean-man dept.

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?"

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Re:This is what example.com is for by Saint+Aardvark · 2004-07-11 03:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

My favourite: president_gore@whitehouse.gov. Looks like it's just me, though; if you Google for it, you just find a reference to my Seti@Home account.

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Re:This is what example.com is for by Saint+Aardvark · 2004-07-11 05:03 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Touche. :-)

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