Re: Using invalid.com email addresses

2010-01-16 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:04:57 -0800 Stephen Hansen wrote: > It may or may not be in violation of the RFCs, but the modern reality of the > internet makes certain "rules" of the RFC's meaningless. They aren't meaningless. They also aren't "rules", a term that I did not use. The Internet is an ana

Re: Using invalid.com email addresses

2010-01-16 Thread Steve Holden
Lie Ryan wrote: > On 01/16/10 19:56, Ben Finney wrote: >> Paul Rubin 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 t

Re: Using invalid.com email addresses

2010-01-16 Thread Lie Ryan
On 01/16/10 19:56, Ben Finney wrote: > Paul Rubin 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 > fre

Re: Using invalid.com email addresses

2010-01-16 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney writes: > Paul Rubin 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 dom

Re: Using invalid.com email addresses

2010-01-16 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Rubin 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. Es

Re: Using invalid.com email addresses

2010-01-16 Thread Paul Rubin
Ben Finney writes: >> Does anyone else think that that behaviour is just rude, not to >> mention in violation of the RFCs? > > Yes, it violates RFCs. It also ignores the fact that the domain is > currently registered until 2010-08-03, and is therefore not available > for anyone else's use, unless

Re: Using invalid.com email addresses

2010-01-15 Thread Ben Finney
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" writes: > Does anyone else think that that behaviour is just rude, not to > mention in violation of the RFCs? Yes, it violates RFCs. It also ignores the fact that the domain is currently registered until 2010-08-03, and is therefore not available for anyone else's use, unless

Re: Using invalid.com email addresses

2010-01-15 Thread Stephen Hansen
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:13 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > Damn! I missed the @invalid.com in the address. I'm not sure why I > just didn't do this before but @invalid.com just went into my > blacklist. > > Does anyone else think that that behaviour is just rude, not to mention > in violation

Re: Using invalid.com email addresses

2010-01-15 Thread Alf P. Steinbach
* D'Arcy J.M. Cain: Damn! I missed the @invalid.com in the address. I'm not sure why I just didn't do this before but @invalid.com just went into my blacklist. Does anyone else think that that behaviour is just rude, not to mention in violation of the RFCs? In RFC violation yes. To saf