Re: Archive's & Email (was: April 16: an IBM webcast on POWER)

[Ken Sims <mdrg8066@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi gang -

On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:57:17 -0500, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Joe Pluta wrote:
> > Hee hee!  Yeah, I don't know how many pieces of junk mail have gone to 
> > abc@xxxxxxx thanks to me.  Heck, I bet a spider will find it on this 
> > post and send things to it...
>
> Actually, you don't have to worry about email addresses being picked up 
> by spiders in the archives.
>
> The archiving software automatically munges obvious email addresses into 
> unlinked text with the domain name removed (abc@xxxxxxx).

That aside, let me urge everyone to use caution when putting in dummy
email addresses.

def.com is a registred domain.  It doesn't appear to have currently
have an active mail server, but that's not to say that it never will.
If it does, I really don't think the admin will appreciate spam
attempts to user-id abc.

Don't use a domain name that you are not authorized to use, even if
that domain name is not currently a registered domain.  It might be in
the future.

Best is to use a domain name ending in .invalid because .invalid is
reserved to never be used as a valid TLD.  So abc@xxxxxxxxxxx is fine,
as would be nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, etc.

If the software is smart enough to reject domains ending in .invalid,
there are other things that can be done, but such discussion belongs
in pctech, not here.

Ken
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