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But people who know and use the words foo and bar are almost exclusively developers, so they should know better eveb when typing a fake address to a random form
by Sharlin 6y ago
But people who know and use the words foo and bar are almost exclusively developers, so they should know better eveb when typing a fake address to a random form. But it’s easy to type reflexively, without thinking, so I’m not surprised people do it.
- CydeWeys 6y agoI'll be honest, even I do this when it's a form that has an email requirement but that I don't otherwise care about at all. I'm not gonna sign myself up for spam. Sometimes example.com and whatever other testing TLD that comes to mind is blocked because they want something that could plausibly be a real email address, so I give them something that could plausibly be a real email address, like asfgjklahsfgjklh@asdfoghuasfga.com
- comfyinnernet 6y agoHave you tried theunabomberwasright@fbi.gov?
- lozaning 6y agoThat's why I own fakefakefake.email it gives me some minor pleasure to provide this email address to people who insist on having an email address for me.
- bialpio 6y agoI use @mailinator.com for that purpose, it's oddly satisfying to put "lolno@mailinator.com" / etc in those places.
- glandium 6y agoA lot of forms reject @mailinator.com and similar domains.
- ficklepickle 6y agoThen you use one of their alternate domains. Or you point a domain to one of their alternates. Check out the MX record for meowcats.fun, for example. It points to suremail.info, which points to mailinator. I have never had that domain rejected by a form. Shhh, don't tell anyone ;)
- nitemice 6y agoI've been using a@b.com just because it's quick & easy to type. I just looked it up, and it seems all the single-letter .com domains are reserved, so it should be fine.
- maven29 6y agoIsn't x.com owned by paypal?
- not2b 6y agoThe fact that it is a valid address is a feature, as some sites that demand email addresses (so they can spam you) verify the address for correctness. People are intentionally choosing an address that appears valid, because it is valid. So, sorry to the guy who bought bar.com, but that's what he signed up for.
- Sharlin 6y agoCorrectness and existence are two different things. I doubt many sites explicitly exclude @example.com or @*.test in their email validator.