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Forgive me if I'm totally being an idiot here, Simon...

But won't there also be bulk e-mail software that will just snip ".invalid"
off the end, to get a valid e-mail address instead?

Or is the invalid tag something that software will add on to addresses that
bounce mail back?

Just wondering :) Just seems a bit more sensible to use something at random,
ie ihug.co.nz0384 or something. I guess that still puts load on your
servers, maybe that's what you're trying to avoid?

Simon Lyall <simon.lyall@ihug.co.nz.invalid> wrote in message
news:7kv36f$25e$1@newsource.ihug.co.nz...
> In ihug.general Bob Generic <anna-m@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> > One would assume, that if you do not want to received spam to your
mailbox,
> > just set it to spam@spam.com
>
> Best policy is to use an address that you know will be bogus. Recently a
> New RFC came out that suggested you create and address that ended in
> ".invalid" . In theory as time goes on software will automaticly recognize
> these addresses and not even try to reply to them.
>
> You can just tack "invalid" onto you address (like this one) or you can
> use something like spam@spam.invalid . As long as the address ends in
> invalid.
>
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