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Sort of related: https://asdf.com/asdfemail.html https://asdf.com/asdfemail.html is still going strong. "You would never guess how many people use asdf@asdf.co

Sort of related: https://asdf.com/asdfemail.html https://asdf.com/asdfemail.html is still going strong. "You would never guess how many people use asdf@asdf.com (or some variant form) as a filler email address across the Internet. Opening up @asdf.com lets in hundreds of email messages a day pertaining to porn site registrations, real audio downloading, mailing lists dealing with Windows NT ... the list goes on and on! If you would really like to send us an email, you can do so here."

JackFr 4y ago
A person I know whose initials are actually ASDF complains that it’s always taken as a user name. (Although she does enjoy initialing things with just her first and last initial - AF)
scrollaway 4y ago
Oh their real email is absolutely brilliant :)
ploum 4y ago
This opened up my eyes. My pseudo is "ploum" and I have the ploum.net domain since 2006/2007. I’ve used the ploum@ploum.net adress for years but it became unbearable regarding spam. It took me this post to make the link that, in France, "ploum ploum" means "whatever random thing" and that surely people are filling "ploum@ploum" as a random address in every web form. Must be even worse for the ploum.com domain.
- lurker_jMckQT99 4y ago
  That's a weird take. I am French, I have never heard (except for Téléphone's song) that expression. The closest thing that comes to mind is "plouf plouf". Wouldn't it simply be because you have been using (and publicly disclosing) that mail address for quite some time and it probably became part of each and every email list script kiddies are able to get their hands on?
  - loginatnine 4y ago
    French canadian here and same comment, ploum does not mean anything. Even plouf (for us).
    - ploum 4y ago
      Belgian here. I don’t use "ploum ploum" either (else I would never have this pseudo) but realized over the years that a number of people use this expression. (look on twitter for "ploum ploum" for example). And, yes, lot of spam is because this email was in multiple exposed account but I’ve received lot and lot of "fresh subscription/confirm your emails" where it was obvious people were simply writing whatever in a field.
      - ploum 4y ago
        This is the explanation: https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/pic/orig/media%2FFm1yTf1aMAIC8b6.jpg https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/pic/orig/media%2FFm1yTf1aMAIC... Ploum-ploum is only used in the south-east of France.
julian_sark 4y ago
Used to work for a software company in 2008 or some such. Back when IBM acquired the company, two remarkable things happened: One, I heard Microsoft's Ballmer shout through a conference phone (MS had wanted to acquire it, too, but IBM prevailed). Second, and within context here, I quickly excused myself from the all-hands and discovered that IBM had failed to get the ibm-whatever.com (or was it ibmwhatever.com? not sure) domain. So I registered it. The next year, I would get loads of miss-guided and personal mail. I used to joke that I was now much better informed about product road-maps than when I was employed there. My intention with the domain was to hand it over to IBM anyway, for a shirt and some pens or some such token. However, I was informed that much like the US government with terrorists, IBM does not negotiate, and would likely send me the lawyers instead of a shirt. So I caved to the suspected chilling effects proactively, and let the domain expire after a year.

JackFr 4y ago

A person I know whose initials are actually ASDF complains that it’s always taken as a user name. (Although she does enjoy initialing things with just her first and last initial - AF)

scrollaway 4y ago

Oh their real email is absolutely brilliant :)

ploum 4y ago

This opened up my eyes. My pseudo is "ploum" and I have the ploum.net domain since 2006/2007. I’ve used the ploum@ploum.net adress for years but it became unbearable regarding spam. It took me this post to make the link that, in France, "ploum ploum" means "whatever random thing" and that surely people are filling "ploum@ploum" as a random address in every web form. Must be even worse for the ploum.com domain.

lurker_jMckQT99 4y ago
That's a weird take. I am French, I have never heard (except for Téléphone's song) that expression. The closest thing that comes to mind is "plouf plouf". Wouldn't it simply be because you have been using (and publicly disclosing) that mail address for quite some time and it probably became part of each and every email list script kiddies are able to get their hands on?
- loginatnine 4y ago
  French canadian here and same comment, ploum does not mean anything. Even plouf (for us).
  - ploum 4y ago
    Belgian here. I don’t use "ploum ploum" either (else I would never have this pseudo) but realized over the years that a number of people use this expression. (look on twitter for "ploum ploum" for example). And, yes, lot of spam is because this email was in multiple exposed account but I’ve received lot and lot of "fresh subscription/confirm your emails" where it was obvious people were simply writing whatever in a field.
    - ploum 4y ago
      This is the explanation: https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/pic/orig/media%2FFm1yTf1aMAIC8b6.jpg https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/pic/orig/media%2FFm1yTf1aMAIC... Ploum-ploum is only used in the south-east of France.

julian_sark 4y ago

Used to work for a software company in 2008 or some such. Back when IBM acquired the company, two remarkable things happened: One, I heard Microsoft's Ballmer shout through a conference phone (MS had wanted to acquire it, too, but IBM prevailed). Second, and within context here, I quickly excused myself from the all-hands and discovered that IBM had failed to get the ibm-whatever.com (or was it ibmwhatever.com? not sure) domain. So I registered it. The next year, I would get loads of miss-guided and personal mail. I used to joke that I was now much better informed about product road-maps than when I was employed there. My intention with the domain was to hand it over to IBM anyway, for a shirt and some pens or some such token. However, I was informed that much like the US government with terrorists, IBM does not negotiate, and would likely send me the lawyers instead of a shirt. So I caved to the suspected chilling effects proactively, and let the domain expire after a year.