FWD: Re: Tourbus / Example.com

[janet paterson <janet313@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Example.com
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>In my Thanksgiving spam post, I mentioned that one way to hide your
>address in Usenet newsgroups is to use a fake email address in your
>posts.  While I have been guilty of using the fake email address
>foo@xxxxxxx, several alert TOURBUS riders point out that there are
>three fake addresses that will work even better:
>
>      anyword@xxxxxxxxxxx
>      anyword@xxxxxxxxxxx
>      anyword@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>You can replace the word "anyword" with any word at all.  The folks at
>the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) recently reserved these
>second level domain names for experimentation and testing.  There are
>two benefits to this:
>
>      1. Web programmers and technical writers can use example domain
>         addresses in their work without the fear of pointing their
>         audience to a real, working address; and
>
>      2. People like you and me can use the example domain addresses
>         when nosy Web sites ask us to key in our email addresses or
>         Web page addresses.
>
>Ain't technology grand?
>
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janet paterson
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