Re: How do you use md5sum?

From: Newsbox (nospam_for_me_please_at_thanks.invalid)
Date: 04/29/05 

Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:53:55 -0400

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:51:15 +0000, Ohmster wrote:

> Ohmster <notareal@emailaddress.com>

[...]

That may not be a real e-mail address, but the domain (emailaddress.com)
is a real and registered domain. The owners of that domain might not
appreciate your posting it on usenet because you may be directing tons of
spam to their servers. Even people on other domains (like me) might have
a gripe because the spam to a valid domain that you posted will
unnecessarily load their own or public trunks and routers.

The actual (unofficial?) rules (ask about RFC's if you can't google them)
say we should all post valid e-mail addresses. And while I'm not
recommending that anyone break the "rules", I will concur that many or
most prefer the expedient of posting invalid or "munged" e-mail addresses,
rather than being inundated with senseless, useless, garbage e-mail spam
(like the ones your systems were recently spewing).

But the fact that it *may* *not* *be* a "real e-mail address" doesn't
alter the fact that it *_is_* a real domain, and that the owners of that
domain and others may be inconvenienced by your carelessness.

Change your fake address to one that is truly and irrevocably at an
invalid domain or TLD. It is way, way rude to be putting other people at
risk.

Thanks for learning, and best wishes.

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