Using invalid.com email addresses

[Steve Holden]

Lie Ryan wrote:
> On 01/16/10 19:56, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> I'd think whoever registered that domain would have known what they
>>> were getting into when they registered it. Same with "example.com" and
>>> so forth.
>> Which doesn't make it any more appropriate to act as though you have
>> free rein in a domain registered to someone else.
>>
>> Especially so as there are domains reserved by RFC 2606 that are *known*
>> never to be registered by anyone, and that *are* free for such use.
>>
> 
> I would be more inclined to think that whoever registered it, actually
> does so he can get those misdirected emails; my suspicion was confirmed
> after seeing this on http://www.invalid.com:
> 
> ===
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Thank you for all the e-mails you sent to us! I promise to read them as
> soon as I can, but please be patient - today there are 292,988 unread
> messages in our invalid.com inboxes and I'm all alone at the office.
> 
> Maybe you want to buy my domain name and get a couple of thousand
> e-mails every month? It's a lot of fun, but I guess you too would feel a
> bit exhausted after a while :)
> 
> Take care!
> 
> Elsa W.
> 
> elsa at invalid.com
> ===
> 
> Seeing that, I cannot bring myself to think it's impolite to use it as
> /dev/null service (it's still impolite to your reader though). I'm a bit
> suspicious of their real motives though, who knows if it's owned by spam
> email address collector.
> 
> example.com, though, seems to be registered to IANA (Internet Assigned
> Numbers Authority).

As usual, there are people who know what they are doing, people who know
they don't know what they're doing, and people who don't know they don't
know what they're doing.

This is teh Intarwebs. Live with it or leave.

regards
 Steve
(who can't believe he just typed "the" as a typo for "teh")
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