Anonymous wrote:
> It's me, the same person who wrote the original post. Except this time I'm
> actually putting in my say. First I tried anonymous@anonymous.com. But
> then I realized that anonymous.com was actually out there (although I
> don't know about the address mentioned above). So I tried anon@anon.com.
> Its domain was existing out on the Web too. Then I tried anon@anon.tv.
> Someone then pointed out a link to a page called anon.tv. Finally, I tried
> anon@anon.blah, which can never be a valid address unless the ICANN makes
> up a .blah domain "system" or whatever you call it. In that case I would
> change it to something else. Did anyone else ever try any of the addresses
> above?
>
> "Anonymous" <anon@anon.blah> wrote in message
> news:jzs_d.915$hg.214@news01.roc.ny...
>> I remember that earlier today, I posted somewhere in a long thread that
>> nobody ever really reads anymore a question: what, if any, fake email
>> addresses (or real ones) do you use on Usenet for the (almost) sole
> purpose
>> of being spamtraps--or use them primarily for that but also read through
>> them to check for any valid newsgroup mail if it's a valid address?
> Anyway,
>> whatever it is, if it's ever used as a spamtrap and you feel OK about
>> posting it here (it's a spamtrap, right?), please put it in here. It's
>> always refreshing to hear people talk about what spam traps they use--it
>> gives new Usenet members ideas of how they should set up theirs when they
>> get the news reader software set up (so that they don't accidentally pick
> a
>> domain that is real).
>>
>> In that really long thread the subject of making a good spamtrap address
> was
>> discussed as I was trying, with some other users, to find an address that
>> was at a domain that really didn't exist, yet still looked sort of
>> appetizing so I could tease spammers who would otherwise be turned off by
>> "invalid.nospam@nonexistent.com" or something like that. Isn't if fun to
> let
>> the spammers just get their own inboxes filled with some junk mail (in
> this
>> case bounced messages) for a change? :-)
>>
>> So, I'm excited to hear your replies!
Why do you not create an account that you check (rather /scan/) every
week/month? This can be a GMail account, for example.
Roy
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Roy Schestowitz
http://schestowitz.com
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