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Re: Not every U.S. telephone number beginning with 555 is fake

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 3:51 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #3

jboynyc wrote: post #2

What's next? EXAMPLE.COM becomes an actual site?

In that same line of thinking, who gets the email @test.com?

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Re: Not every U.S. telephone number beginning with 555 is fake

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Post by oasisbob » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 4:01 PM UTC

Similar: not every 192.x.x.x IP address is in a private (RFC1918) network.

Re: Not every U.S. telephone number beginning with 555 is fake

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Post by dan1234 » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 4:06 PM UTC

cmiles74 wrote: post #4

josefresco wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In that same line of thinking, who gets the email @test.com?

The people at test.com! They sounds a bit cranky. http://contactx.test.com/contactX/contact-spam.cfm

(Very OT) Wow, test.com actually have a patent for "Internet test-making"

http://www.google.com/patents/US6513042

Re: Not every U.S. telephone number beginning with 555 is fake

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Post by jmcqk6 » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 4:07 PM UTC

oasisbob wrote: post #12

Similar: not every 192.x.x.x IP address is in a private (RFC1918) network.

This is interesting. Do you know who controls these public addresses? I know in the past I've seen filtered connections to 192.x.x.x thinking that it would get only internal connections then. The owners of these public addresses could wreak havoc in some places.

Re: Not every U.S. telephone number beginning with 555 is fake

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Post by linker3000 » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 4:14 PM UTC

UK numbers for drama...

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/numbering/guidance...

Re: Not every U.S. telephone number beginning with 555 is fake

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Post by user24 » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 4:17 PM UTC

linker3000 wrote: post #15

UK numbers for drama... http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/numbering/guidance...

We use those as placeholder text on our registration forms.

Re: Not every U.S. telephone number beginning with 555 is fake

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Post by user24 » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 4:18 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #3

jboynyc wrote: post #2

What's next? EXAMPLE.COM becomes an actual site?

In that same line of thinking, who gets the email @test.com?

I own (my username)@gmail.com and I get test emails several times a week.

Re: Not every U.S. telephone number beginning with 555 is fake

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 4:20 PM UTC

oasisbob wrote: post #12

Similar: not every 192.x.x.x IP address is in a private (RFC1918) network.

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Re: Not every U.S. telephone number beginning with 555 is fake

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Post by JonnieCache » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

josefresco wrote: post #3

jboynyc wrote: post #2

What's next? EXAMPLE.COM becomes an actual site?

In that same line of thinking, who gets the email @test.com?

The owner of foo@bar.com has written a little blurb about the crap he gets at http://bar.com/

Re: Not every U.S. telephone number beginning with 555 is fake

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Post by benjarrell » Wed, Oct 16, 2013, 4:25 PM UTC

jmcqk6 wrote: post #14

oasisbob wrote: post #12

Similar: not every 192.x.x.x IP address is in a private (RFC1918) network.

This is interesting. Do you know who controls these public addresses? I know in the past I've seen filtered connections to 192.x.x.x thinking that it would get only internal connections then. The owners of these public addresses could wreak havoc in some places.

From http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:

     10.0.0.0        -   10.255.255.255  (10/8 prefix)
     172.16.0.0      -   172.31.255.255  (172.16/12 prefix)
     192.168.0.0     -   192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)