Re: A general note on invalid.com and others like it [message #183011 is a reply to message #183008] |
Wed, 02 October 2013 22:07 |
Peter H. Coffin
Messages: 245 Registered: September 2010
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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:
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>> invalid.com is a legit e-mail address; try it.
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>> Using it would be violating your tos and/or aup by your ISP for
>> impersonation.
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>> It's also for sale: [snip whois]
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>> My gosh dolts, use an actual non-existant address and check it out!
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> Dolts?
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> .invalid is a reserved top level domain for exactly this purpose:
"invalid.com" != ".invalid"
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