hostcount.ripe.net?

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Tue Aug 7 16:04:12 UTC 2001


At 1:11 PM +0200 8/7/01, Brad Knowles wrote:

>  	Actually, I noticed the spamgone.com address, and decided to skip
>  it for the moment (too many things happening in RL right now).

	While the domain itself appears to be valid and accepting mail, 
the original questioner on this issue does not appear to be a valid 
user on that system.

	In essence, they are hijacking a domain owned by someone else, 
and my guess is that they could potentially be brought up on charges 
depending on where the owner of the domain is located and whether or 
not they want to spend the time to track down the person in question.


	I would strongly encourage people to post to this mailing 
list/newsgroup with real e-mail addresses, and not use "NOSPAM" or 
other garbage in their addresses, and most especially not hijack 
someone else's domain for your posting.

	After all, you wouldn't like the consequences if someone sent out 
a large spam to millions upon millions of users with your e-mail 
address, causing millions and millions of bounces, and hundreds of 
thousands of extremely angry responses from the few valid e-mail 
addresses that were actually hit.

	All e-mail address harvesting programs I know of are smart enough 
to detect and eliminate any "NOSPAM" garbage you may add, and 
therefore adding this kind of crap simply doesn't do any good.


	If you absolutely, positively, *MUST* post with some invalid 
address, at least do so using the assigned ".invalid" top level 
domain, so that people can easily detect what you're doing and why, 
and we can all throw away your message without reading it.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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