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Interesting project. I was recently inundated with abusive account signups, and it seemed like the "fast path" for attackers was to register an outlook.com dom
by jrockway 5y ago
Interesting project. I was recently inundated with abusive account signups, and it seemed like the "fast path" for attackers was to register an outlook.com domain, and use that to create a Github account. I guess Microsoft does no validation on these signups. It was especially painful since legit users used outlook.com and Github, so I couldn't just block them. (Fastmail is in second place here, but had no legitimate use, unfortunately.)
For emails that I don't want an ongoing obligation to read... I used to have a custom alias for mailinator (nospam.jrock.us MX <them>). At some point I guess I got rid of it, perhaps because mailinator stopped offering that service. Unsurprisingly, nobody ever looks up the MX record to implement the denylist. Worked perfectly every time.
- zinxq 5y ago> perhaps because mailinator stopped offering that service That is untrue. Mailinator definitely still supports pointing any domain to it's MX records and will allow all incoming email (modulo DoS protection, abuse, etc). Such email will arrive in the respective Mailinator inbox (i.e. bob@yourdomain.com goes to the "bob" inbox)