2.1 vs. 2.2

[Bengt Richter]

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 05:01:50 +0200, Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?= <gerhard at bigfoot.de> wrote:

>* Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> [2002-04-14 02:33 +0000]:
>> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:41:37 +0200, Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?= <gerhard at bigfoot.de> wrote:
>> 
>> >* Jens Baader <nospam at nospam.com> [2002-04-13 23:46 +0200]:
>> >                      ^^^^^^^^^^
>> >
>> >If you don't have permission of the nospam.com domain owner to use their
>> >domain, you should stop abusing their services *now*. If you don't want
>> >to get spam, I'd recommend you get a throwaway email address at a
>> >freemailer.
>> >
>> I agree, but OTOH you'd think the IETF would come up with a standard
>> global /dev/null sort of address for this purpose. Is there such a thing?
>> I.e., why burden freemailers with garbage storage, and the net with the traffic?
>
>That's already been done:
>
>http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt
>
><quote>
>    To safely satisfy these needs, four domain names are reserved as
>    listed and described below.
>
>    .test
>    .example
>    .invalid
>    .localhost
>
>    ".test" is recommended for use in testing of current or new DNS
>    related code.
>
>    ".example" is recommended for use in documentation or as examples.
>
>    ".invalid" is intended for use in online construction of domain
>    names that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a
>    glance are invalid.
></quote>
>
>So if you really *never* want to receive email replies from usenet
>posts, you should construct a fake email address and add .invalid at the
>end.
>
Great. So we can recommend that Jens change his

    Jens Baader <nospam at nospam.com>
to
    Jens Baader <nospam at nospam.invalid>

I'd CC: him, but ... ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter