foo@bar.com is a real email address
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Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#2I have a domain which is much the same, though I don't get nearly the volume bar.com does. And, I now feel guilty for having used foo@bar.com a few times in the past. Mea culpa!
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#3Reminds me of: http://test.com/contact/contact_spam.htm
I dread to think how many emails they get everyday.
As a side note, looks like they copied HN's favicon.
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#5For future reference, the example.com domain is maintained for the purpose of documentation, etc.
Thus foo@example.com might be a better address to use, especially in examples.
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#6I'd think you'd have to expect this when you set up that email account.
(Also, it wasn't enough to spam them, now we DDoS them)
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#7First we spammed them, and now we appear to be DDoSing them.
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#9I have a domain which is much the same, though I don't get nearly the volume bar.com does. And, I now feel guilty for having used foo@bar.com a few times in the past. Mea culpa!
same here at asdas.net
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#10That is so true... Most developers who get an account with Mailgun (http://mailgun.net) get so excited about the live email log or for some other reason... they love to fire up emails to @test.com. We have thousands of emails in our queue destined for test.com at any given moment.
Guys, please stop: what makes you think test.com can't be a real destination? :-) Actually, they don't have a mail server for that domain, but still...