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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by octo_t on Thursday December 05, 2013 @08:44AM (#6854312)
regrettably this is against RFC 2142[1], which states that you need to leave certain mailboxes open (such as abuse@domain, webmaster@domain etc)

[1] - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt

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Re:Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromis... by cleaver on Thursday December 05, 2013 @03:00PM (#6856771)
Quite ironic, isn't it, how "[email protected]" is a conduit for abuse?

Spammers effectively killed that RFC.

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