You might be going too stringent in that case.. For instance, many people create aliases related to the service they are working with.. Also, a lot of people use 'throwaway' addresses related to the service.. I remember using 'ticketmaster@' once and surprised at how quickly 3rd party offers came to me after buying tickets online.. (this was way back when)
Just because someone 'might' use a name for nefarious purposes, doesn't mean it will always be used for the purpose.. however, if I was starting up a 'freemail' service, I might like to be overly restrictive, but even if you went as far as 'any' trademarked name.. you might still have problems. On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:31:57 -0400 Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 04:59:39PM +0000, Kirk MacDonald wrote: >> In addition to what is mentioned in RFC2142, can anyone offer any >> resources (or "best practices") for what can be considered "restricted" >> email addresses/UIDs for a domain which offers mailbox service to the >> general public? > > In addition to the excellent ideas already on the table, I suggest > disallowing the domain names of the top N sites (pick your flavor > of "top", pick your N), e.g., do not allow: > > ebay.com@ > amazon.com@ > google.com@ > > and so on. There are many, MANY people out there who don't grasp the > difference between RHS and LHS of email addresses and will be fooled > by these. You might also want to consider disallowing the domain > names sans the TLD, e.g., ebay@, amazon@, google@ for the same reason. > > ---rsk > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop > -- -- "Catch the Magic of Linux..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Peddemors, President/CEO LinuxMagic Inc. Visit us at http://www.linuxmagic.com @linuxmagic ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Wizard IT Company - For More Info http://www.wizard.ca "LinuxMagic" is a Registered TradeMark of Wizard Tower TechnoServices Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 604-682-0300 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
