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Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it

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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:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> It's also for sale: [snip whois]
> 
>> My gosh dolts, use an actual non-existant address and check it out!
> 
> Dolts?
> 
> .invalid is a reserved top level domain for exactly this purpose:
> 
> | ".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.
> 
> 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.


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A general note on invalid.com and others like it Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-10-02 15:07 -0400
  Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Fiver <numeralfive@gmail.com> - 2013-10-02 21:46 +0200
    Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-10-02 17:07 -0500
      Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Fiver <numeralfive@gmail.com> - 2013-10-03 00:31 +0200
        Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-10-02 20:03 -0400
          Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Fiver <numeralfive@gmail.com> - 2013-10-03 02:23 +0200
            Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-10-02 22:49 -0400
            Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-10-03 14:06 -0400
      Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-10-02 20:02 -0400
    Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-10-03 19:36 +0200
  Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2013-10-02 19:49 +0000
    Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it richard <noreply@example.com> - 2013-10-03 22:40 -0400
      Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2013-10-04 03:50 +0000
        Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it richard <noreply@example.com> - 2013-10-04 04:08 -0400
          Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2013-10-04 12:55 +0000
        Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-10-04 13:42 +0000
          Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2013-10-04 14:04 +0000
        Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-10-04 19:33 -0400
          Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-10-05 13:54 -0500
            Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-10-05 18:13 -0400
          Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2013-10-05 19:01 +0000
            Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-10-05 18:16 -0400
              Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2013-10-06 01:47 +0000
                Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-10-05 22:45 -0400
                Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> - 2013-10-06 02:54 +0000
      Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-10-04 19:30 -0400
  Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it richard <noreply@example.com> - 2013-10-03 22:44 -0400
    Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-10-04 08:32 +0100

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