Re:[email protected]
by CydeWeys on Sunday September 27, 2020 @10:34AM
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I'll be honest, even I do this when it's a form that has an email requirement but that I don't otherwise care about at all. I'm not gonna sign myself up for spam. Sometimes example.com and whatever other testing TLD that comes to mind is blocked because they want something that could plausibly be a real email address, so I give them something that could plausibly be a real email address, like [email protected]
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Re:[email protected]
by lozaning on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:43PM
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That's why I own fakefakefake.email it gives me some minor pleasure to provide this email address to people who insist on having an email address for me.
Re:[email protected]
by bialpio on Sunday September 27, 2020 @04:14PM
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I use @mailinator.com for that purpose, it's oddly satisfying to put "[email protected]" / etc in those places.
Re:[email protected]
by glandium on Sunday September 27, 2020 @06:19PM
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A lot of forms reject @mailinator.com and similar domains.
Re:[email protected]
by ficklepickle on Sunday September 27, 2020 @08:40PM
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Then you use one of their alternate domains. Or you point a domain to one of their alternates.
Check out the MX record for meowcats.fun, for example. It points to suremail.info, which points to mailinator. I have never had that domain rejected by a form.
Shhh, don't tell anyone ;)
Re:[email protected]
by nitemice on Sunday September 27, 2020 @09:02PM
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I've been using [email protected] just because it's quick & easy to type. I just looked it up, and it seems all the single-letter .com domains are reserved, so it should be fine.
Re:[email protected]
by maven29 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @03:13AM
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Isn't x.com owned by paypal?