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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by yabai_yatsu on Thursday September 03, 2020 @09:37AM (#24363897)
I know a guy who owns a domain in my country equivalent to user.com or test.com or something like that. He frequently knows what new tech companies are about to launch because devs doing local testing sometimes put the email as [email protected] and he gets all the onboarding emails.

He received one while we were working on a project together and opened it up to show me. I thought it's kinda hilarious that some dev is just chucking that in their sign up page but he actually gets a real email because of it.

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Re:The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account by JoBrad on Thursday September 03, 2020 @09:42AM (#24363936)
I get a surprising amount of personal email from several people who mistype their own email quite consistently. Everything from mortgage info to job offers and updates from teachers. And I don’t have a special mailbox name or domain. Can’t imagine how much someone with a domain like that might actually get.
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