I used to work for a company that hosted customer.com. Microsoft, on more than one occasion, sent thousands and thousands of emails to customer@customer.com.
foo@bar.com is a real email address
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Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ?
.test, not being widely used, is not immediately recognizable as a TLD the way .com is.
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#33That 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…
I agree, test.com is an awful domain to use.
Whenever I fire up email testing tools, I use president@whitehouse.gov.
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#34So is sp@rtacus.com
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#35First we spammed them, and now we appear to be DDoSing them.
See it boggles my mind how a site cannot survive a front page HN appearance. TideArt has been on the front page a number of times, sometimes even second top link, and I happen to know this brings around 10,000 more hits. Using my own custom CMS, built on SQLite, I handle that kind of traffic easily on a shared host.
HN will never bring you more than a few hits per second at the most..
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#36If you really need to receive a test email, you can always use @mailinator.com (just make sure it's not sensitive info). Mailinator is a disposable, publicly viewable email address mostly useful for one-time account registrations, especially in cases where you fear they might spam you.
In recent years, I started using the + notation at gmail -- anything you put after the + and before the @ is ignored by gmail, BUT you still receive it -- the handy part is you can filter it out (e.g. myname+hackernews@gmail.com will go to myname@gmail.com, and I create a filter to archive everything that comes to myname+hackernews@gmail.com)
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#37Reminds 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.
At the same time they likely have a couple of extra inbound links. :D
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#38I 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.
"too long"? Are you joking?
Anyone when educated about the proper use that says that is just spouting BS.
Do it right or don't do it all.
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#39That 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…
Acme Labs has much the same problem. Jef's (2005) article about handling his mail is still a good read (though a bit dated now) http://acme.com/mail_filtering/
Re: foo@bar.com is a real email address
#40My usual address for this kind of thing is john@doe.com.
I've always wondered who would get those emails...