On 11/28/05, Larry Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Look out! Here come the RFC references! Duck. Maybe someone should have submitted a comment to RFC 2606 to include another top-level domain: .bogus or .antisocial "for the purpose of avoiding spam and other unsolicited emails when asking a quesiton on a newsgroup when it is your first post and you are not sure about the people on the newsgroup."
Seriously, I don't know why you guys get so worked up about the use of cutsie fake email addresses.
--Russ
Russ Sherk writes:
>
> I don't really think that it is anti-social. If someone wants to post a
> quick question on the newsgroup and not be bombarded with personal emails
> from the group's users, it is reasonable to use a fake email.
It may be reasonable to use a fake email address, but not one that's in
a legitimate domain -- that *is* antisocial. As per RFC 2606, the four
top-level domains .test, .example, .invalid, and .localhost are reserved
for testing and example purposes and are thus guaranteed to never be
assigned. Likewise for example.com, example.net, and example.org. So,
if you insist on making up a fake email address, please use one of those
domains.
Look out! Here come the RFC references! Duck. Maybe someone should have submitted a comment to RFC 2606 to include another top-level domain: .bogus or .antisocial "for the purpose of avoiding spam and other unsolicited emails when asking a quesiton on a newsgroup when it is your first post and you are not sure about the people on the newsgroup."
Seriously, I don't know why you guys get so worked up about the use of cutsie fake email addresses.
--Russ
-Larry Jones
He doesn't complain, but his self-righteousness sure gets on my nerves.
-- Calvin
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