I just put in random gibberish and submit. Too many undeliverable mails can cause the sender be punished by their mailing service.
A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
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Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
#62Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every email to legal@ has to be read by any legitimate site, thanks to GDPR/CCPA. Not that you'll get a response.
Hardly, and especially no to the GDPR. As a US citizen operating my own US site, doing no business with the EU, I do not care nor am I required to comply with EU law that has no bearing on a US citizen like me.
> As a US citizen operating my own US site, doing no business with the EU, I do not care nor am I required to comply with EU law that has no bearing on a US citizen like me.
It's actually a bit more complicated than that. Our expensive GDPR lawyers have made it clear there is still some amount of risk.
The example was of a German citizen booking American hotels for their vacation. Under the wording of the GDPR law, if their data was breached, the hotel could be held liable under a German court.
Now, the realisticness of this actually going to court or there being any meaningful penalty has not really been tested, but it's our corporate policy not to be the first ones to do so. So even for signup forms targeting Americans for American events, legal has asked us to specify to always collect country information (so we know what GDPR rules to process this person under) or include a dumb disclaimer that people from certain countries should not sign up.
Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
These types of addresses are actually used by corporate anti-spam software and they are called "honeypots". The idea being you setup a inbox with no public email address and report any IP Addresses sending it emails. There is no legitimate reason someone should be emailing these addresses, so it's an obvious flag that someone is being naughty.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2142
> SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
> Denial of service attacks (flooding a mailbox with junk) will be easier after this document becomes a standard, since more systems will support the same set of mailbox names.
Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
#65The design of this blog is delightfully readable: no popups, no banners, no FOUC as I wait for a beautiful webfont to load.
Except for the "beautiful webfront" bit, that was my experience too - no popups/banners/ads while waiting patiently for it to finally load the "Connection timed out" page.
If you're speaking about l3m.in I removed unused chars from the font I load (using the super tool on fontsquirrel website) in order to make it lighter. I save the banner images in webp format too (with a liiiittle bit of gaussian blur in order to reduce the size even more) :P
The real problem here is my internet connection ; my top upload speed seems to be something like 100-200ko/s, which isn't very much when there's a lot of people loading various parts of my self-hosted websites :(
Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is actually kind of clever, but only if you give us a real email address. We will often take your name and insert them into emails (for some dumb reasons around personalization supposedly increasing opens). But an email being stuffed full of spam words is a good way to get it flagged by anti-spam software and potentially hurt our sender reputation score. You would probably have to do it en masse and use real inb…
I never thought about naming me with potential spam words :o
Please, call me Singles. Hot Young Patriot Singles In Your Area is my father.
Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
#67I basically do this too, though I just put in some random gibberish (or "admin" or "info" or something) before the domain. I figure they probably have some catchall email address, and if not, nothing wasted On the other hand, if you do want a one-time piece of email, but don't want to be subscribed to a mailing list, check out sharklasers.com. It's a free temporary email service that works pretty well
I usually search "tempmail service" on some search engine and take a random link.
Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
#68Since the site is down, what's the trick?
The site is not down, but my poor upload connection prevent you all to have access to this glorious txt file, sorry :(
Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
#69your website is down homie. "What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito?"
My tiny webserver is fine, but my connection is pretty low today, preventing you to even reach my server :(
Keep refreshing, maybe you will find a way to this txt file :P
Re: A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
#70I used to run a mud back in the late 90s. When we nerfed something a disgruntled player signed up all the admin emails for every piece of spam they could find.
It was a huge pain in the butt. Nowadays we would probably barely notice.