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postmaster@domainis always funI always use info@ and then whatever domain I’m visiting. If they want to send emails to it, then they best be putting up with it themselves.
That’s a lovely little idea, imma steal that
I don’t understand why you would do this to our Lord and Savior Gaben. The NY Times guy would be better.
He’s just another billionaire with a yacht collection, he deserves all the spam
Untrue, Gabe deserves less spam then other billionaires. It’s a spectrum.
He pushes unregulated gambling, though, including to minors
All billionaires are taking advantage of us
When I was younger, I filled in the first email address that popped into my head in order to fill in these web forms: “joeblow@aol.com.”
Turns out, it’s an actual email address. I know, because some forms won’t let me make up a non-legitimate address, but they always accepted that one.
For over 20 years, I’ve been using that as my go-to throwaway address anytime a web form blocks me from proceeding.
To whomever owns that address… I’m sorry for all the spam you may have incurred thanks to me. But it’s such a perfect generic throwaway name! I’ve never forgotten it.
Websites don’t have an actual check for a legit email… That’s why they send confirmation links to click. Forms check that it ends with @something.something, sometimes they can add filters to not allow anything other than the 20 most popular domains. Or they can block addresses with less than 3 characters, because nobody real has those. But most forms you can keyboard smash anything@anything.anything. They just might make a temp account until it’s confirmed or something.
But joeblow@aol.com almost certainly was/is real.
Edit: looks like I was also incorrect!
You’re partially right, I’d like to add some details: websites can also check if a domain (e.g. example.com) actually exists. So if you smash random letters on your keyboard and you end up with a non-existing domain, a website will be able to stop you from using that address.
More advanced websites also check for an MX record on the domain DNS. If a domain exists but it doesn’t have an MX record, then it’s not going to be able to receive emails and may be blocked in sign up forms.
Edit: not only an MX record, but also an A record, because if no MX record is present, then the mail is sent to the A record as a fallback (even though, in all honesty, I think this is a very uncommon configuration on the modern internet).
Wow thank you for the info, I didn’t know they had such advanced lookups.
Websites don’t have an actual check for a legit email.
Some do. You can connect to an SMTP server and pretend to send an email (send the
EHLO,MAIL FROM, andRCPT TOcommands, but don’t actually send any content). A lot of servers will immediately reject as soon as you provide an invalid recipient email address.Of course, that doesn’t work for any domains with a catchall address (where every address at a domain goes to one mailbox), and some SMTP servers don’t reject the email until later (or even just silently ignore emails to invalid addresses) in order to avoid enumeration attacks.
Huh thank you for the more correct information, I didn’t know about those options.
That’s a low blow to Joe Blow bro
Someone has been using my phone number for the last few months, not funny.
I like to use jesus@christ.com
Anytime airports have me give an email address, I just use testicles@aol.com and/or Hotmail.
But what happens if your flight is rescheduled to two hours earlier and they send the itinerary update to testicles? You’re going to show up to the airport late.
Those notifications are sent by the flight company, not the airport. Airports often ask for an email address to let you access the wifi and then start spamming.
Oh, okay, thanks
Airports usually have departure/arrival tables online you can follow
me@yourmumshouse.cum
I always use ahitler@email.com
