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Where Do Dummy e-mail Addresses Go?  

Go on, you've done it ... entered some crap e-mail address into a web site
so you can get at the goodies, particularly when they want you e-mail address for no particularly
good reason. It's becoming an increasing feature of news sites, and apparently the
"demographics" that they are harvesting aren't worth a hellava lot, 'cos people tell fibbers (shock, horror!).

Anyway, this fella wondered where all the bullshit e-mail went, and then he got slashdotted (is that a verb?) with lots of discussion resulting in these interesting stats:
  1. foo@bar.com [google.com] - 15,800
  2. someone@somewhere.com [google.com] - 4,170
  3. nobody@nowhere.com [google.com] - 2,900
  4. root@localhost.localdomainm [google.com] - 2,860
  5. mickey@mouse.com [google.com] - 2,470
  6. somebody@somewhere.com [google.com] - 2,240
  7. john@doe.com [google.com] - 2,120
  8. billgates@microsoft.com [google.com] - 1,790
  9. me@mine.com [google.com] - 1,400
  10. noone@nowhere.com [google.com] - 975
  11. fake@fake.com [google.com] - 710
  12. jane@doe.com [google.com] - 423
Interesting outcome is that it seems there is effectively an "official" e-mail blackhole
‹name›@example.{com,net,org}
, as is prescribed in RFC 2606.


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