Dear lusers,

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

While I respect that you're intelligent enough to realize that if you sign up for a site with a "fake" email address, you won't get spam... It's always a good idea to be sure of two things:

1) That the address is, indeed, fake.
2) That the site doesn't send the username AND password in the email


Because now, I have multiple usernames and passwords at my disposal.

Comments

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

There really IS a bgates@microsoft.com?

[hangar.livejournal.com]

I always would tell my friend not to register for things to "email@email.com"

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

lol!

If only!

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

[hangar.livejournal.com]

Not as bad as my friend who thought, "Oh hey, Ashley has a domain name! I can register to myname@herdomain and get away with it! Teehee!"

She didn't realize that I had a catch-all set up on email. Sigh.

[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

i'm always surprised by the number of sites that accept example@example.com

[tadiera.livejournal.com]

Ooooh. Ouch!

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

well catchall ain't a good idea these days :-)

[hangar.livejournal.com]

Oooh yeah. Those damn "GET A FREE IPOD!/LUXURY BAG!/PS3!" sites..

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

it is valid. why annoys me is when they reject perfectly valid adresses like with a '+'

[hangar.livejournal.com]

Haha, I learned the hard way - now I just set up a forward for my seperate addresses to the main one.

[silveryrose.livejournal.com]

Oh I wouldn't say that. I rather enjoy the 200+ AIM accounts I can choose from as a result of having one ;)

[silveryrose.livejournal.com]

I am always amazed how often I get AIM registration emails on one of my domains.

Can't complain though, I've got plenty of choices of AIM names if I ever want to chat with people I don't trust enough to give my real AIM name to.

[wibbble]

I've a friend with delete.me@gmail.com. He gets lots of people's details...

[sethb.livejournal.com]

billg, actually.

Of course, you have to go through several layers of assistants before he sees it. There are more direct addresses, which obviously don't get posted publicly.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

example.com isn't exactly "valid"; it's reserved for use in documentation. But the syntax is valid.

Most of the sites that reject '+' are also stupid enough to do their checking on the client side. Sometimes forcing the '+' to be accepted breaks their system on their end.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

I know someone who gets a lot of myspace passwords sent to his domain. He either gives the accounts to evil friends, or just installs a standard (very not flattering) profile.

[http://users.livejournal.com/hub_/]

A right I missed the example.com detail :-/

Long time I haven't read the RFCs.

[azurelunatic]

What's best is if they use the same password for everything.

[jecook]

+ eveltny billion.

If I need a disposable address, I just generate an alias on the server. Much easier.

And if I know it's going to be a harvested address, with no need for it to go anyhere, I ll usually put in abuse @ whatever domain it is. ::Evil grin:: Or I'll toss it to the biff filter I have.

[thisisnotmylj.livejournal.com]

i have thisisnotmyemail@gmail.com and so many people use that one to sign up for shit. I get myspace passwords all the time. it's fun to mess with them sometimes.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Did she realise you could also forward everything from that address back to her?

[hangar.livejournal.com]

No.. but that's what I did. :D

[forever-damned.livejournal.com]

He's also "apparently" got the most sophisticated anti-spam filters in the world.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

I'm considering using NoSpam@mydomain.com as my primary and seeing what happens...

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

Yes, flunkies.

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

acme.com gets about a hundred times more (http://acme.com/mail_filtering/), apparently.

[meitemark.livejournal.com]

I have for years used a catchall adress system. If I register at spamspamspamdomain.com I register with the adress spamspamspamdomain.com@mydomain.net. I have gotten veeery little spam over the years.