Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Peter H. Coffin" Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 17:07:28 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="4163d0103afdb3d32fe6c98974b1e330"; logging-data="22504"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+mOQeL8Uv1r5MgGCSBt0fE" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (OpenBSD) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iDXeMlcRqNCBmNo+zbYDvorGIvc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:10978 On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:46:57 +0200, 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.com" != ".invalid" -- The Write Many, Read Never drive. For those people that don't know their system has a /dev/null already. -- Rik Steenwinkel, singing the praises of 8mm Exabytes