Some folks registered asdf.com, and had a similar experience. I wish they posted their inbox for all to see.
foo@bar.com is a real email address
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Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#22I've never been a fan of foo and bar as example names. Particularly in code examples, I can never keep them straight because the names are meaningless.
Anyway, we already have example.com for this purpose.
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#23http://bar.com.nyud.net:8080/ should bring up the coral cache, if/when anyone can actually get through to the origin URI.
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#24I thought this is basic knowledge of everyone technically engaged in Internet stuff. But apparently, this isn't the case, despite its well-known and very readable documentation! [1] It says: 1) There are exactly 3 domains the IANA keeps free for that purpose: example.com example.net example.org 2) In addition, all domains under the following 3 top level domains can be used freely for that purpose: *.test *.example *.…
example.com is too long. That's why everyone uses foo@bar.com or something shorter.
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#25I thought this is basic knowledge of everyone technically engaged in Internet stuff. But apparently, this isn't the case, despite its well-known and very readable documentation! [1] It says: 1) There are exactly 3 domains the IANA keeps free for that purpose: example.com example.net example.org 2) In addition, all domains under the following 3 top level domains can be used freely for that purpose: *.test *.example *.…
example.com is too long. That's why everyone uses foo@bar.com or something shorter.
Although this argument about shortness doesn't make any sense to me, what about foo@b.test which conforms to the standard and is even shorter?
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#26That 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 domai…
Ironically, I just came across some potentially real email addresses in the Mailgun docs and sample code, i.e.:
http://cl.ly/1L1C0O2A081x000t382z
You might want to edit those.
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#27I thought this is basic knowledge of everyone technically engaged in Internet stuff. But apparently, this isn't the case, despite its well-known and very readable documentation! [1] It says: 1) There are exactly 3 domains the IANA keeps free for that purpose: example.com example.net example.org 2) In addition, all domains under the following 3 top level domains can be used freely for that purpose: *.test *.example *.…
Thanks for the explanation and for pointing to RFC. I somehow managed to survive to this date without knowing any of this.
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#28That 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 domai…
You should probably set the example by avoid using "@farfaraway.uk" in your blog posts. It's invalid right now, but that could change too... ;-)
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#29That 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 domai…
Some should setup a MX on test.com and:
* post a public webpage with all email going to @test.com
* post a public webpage with all email addresses harvested from emails to @test.com
Or
* setup an auto responder asking people to stop sending there (bonus points: threaten to post emails of repeat offenders to spammer lists)
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#30I've never been a fan of foo and bar as example names. Particularly in code examples, I can never keep them straight because the names are meaningless. Anyway, we already have example.com for this purpose.
To be fair, their meaningless is their value. Using "real world" names may distract from the logic being discussed or unreasonably suggest that the logic may fit only a particular scenario.