On 01/16/10 19:56, Ben Finney wrote: > Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid> writes: > >> I'd think whoever registered that domain would have known what they >> were getting into when they registered it. Same with "example.com" and >> so forth. > > Which doesn't make it any more appropriate to act as though you have > free rein in a domain registered to someone else. > > Especially so as there are domains reserved by RFC 2606 that are *known* > never to be registered by anyone, and that *are* free for such use. >
I would be more inclined to think that whoever registered it, actually does so he can get those misdirected emails; my suspicion was confirmed after seeing this on http://www.invalid.com: === Hi everybody, Thank you for all the e-mails you sent to us! I promise to read them as soon as I can, but please be patient - today there are 292,988 unread messages in our invalid.com inboxes and I'm all alone at the office. Maybe you want to buy my domain name and get a couple of thousand e-mails every month? It's a lot of fun, but I guess you too would feel a bit exhausted after a while :) Take care! Elsa W. e...@invalid.com === Seeing that, I cannot bring myself to think it's impolite to use it as /dev/null service (it's still impolite to your reader though). I'm a bit suspicious of their real motives though, who knows if it's owned by spam email address collector. example.com, though, seems to be registered to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
