Re: Tool to scan Hard disk for bad sectors

user_at_domain.invalid
Date: 08/01/05 

Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:06:20 +0200

Richard Polhill wrote:
> Karel Venken <someone@private.org> wrote in news:42ee4d3f$0$13173
> $ba620e4c@news.skynet.be:
>
>
>>What's wrong with using an unexisting domainname as appendix? I checked
>>it again, it is still unused.
>>
> Basically, if you use a domain that is not yet registered, at some point
> somebody may register it. When they do so they *may* find that they get
> inordinate amounts of spam as addresses at the domain will have been culled
> over time from Web usenet clients. Even though they will not have users
> with the same name (someone) as soon as they switch on a mailserver at that
> domain, a thousand spammers will connect to try to send it spam.
>
> In short it is considered impolite and bad form to publish (including post
> in usenet) an email address that does not belong to you, whether or not
> anyone owns it at present.

Hmmm,... this makes sense. If I harmed someone, I apologize for this.

Perhaps the best thing I can do for now is to file the registration for
someone.org and correct this. I hope this will get me some credit back.

> There is a top level domain that is set up specifically for this purpose
> that you are free to use and that will never 'belong' to anyone. Suffix
> your email address in your newsreader with .invalid and you'll get less
> flames about it from other users.

So I will follow as you suggested.

K.

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