| Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it [message #183022 is a reply to message #183008] |
Thu, 03 October 2013 17:36   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Fiver wrote:
> On 2013-10-02 21:07, Twayne wrote:
>> Just an idle comment on those who use invalid.com for e-mail addresses:
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>> invalid.com is a legit e-mail address; try it.
>>
>> Using it would be violating your tos and/or aup by your ISP for
>> impersonation.
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>> It's also for sale: [snip whois]
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>> My gosh dolts, use an actual non-existant address and check it out!
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> Dolts?
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> .invalid is a reserved top level domain for exactly this purpose:
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> | ".invalid" is intended for use in online construction of domain
> | names that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a
> | glance are invalid.
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> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
And for those who can read, it is proposed under
| 2. TLDs for Testing, & Documentation Examples
It is _not_ proposed under “2. TLDs for anti-social address munging in
Usenet because you are not smart enough to deal with your incoming spam”.
<http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/>
> I don't know where you read "invalid.com". It was certainly not in the
> message you replied to earlier.
I would not know, .invalid & friends go to /dev/null automagically here.
And postings without real name are scored down the same way.
F'up2 news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
PointedEars
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