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04-11-2004, 06:46 AM

Methuselah wrote:

>>>>So, instead, you pass on the problem to some guy in Fremont, the actual
>>>>owner of anydomain.org
>
> Hey look:
>
> whois whois.arin.net [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
>
> No match found for [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].

Do it without the 'www'

Domain ID

96669531-LROR
Domain Name:ANYDOMAIN.ORG
Created On:26-Mar-2003 00:00:08 UTC
Last Updated On:11-Mar-2004 06:30:15 UTC
Expiration Date:26-Mar-2005 00:00:08 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R42-LROR
Status:OK
Registrant ID:0-758337-Gandi
Registrant Name:Uber Hacker
Registrant Organization:Uber Hacker
Registrant Street1:1230 Beethoven Common
Registrant Street2:Apt 201
Registrant City:Fremont
Registrant State/Province:CA

etc.

--
Keith Willoughby [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
"on day release from hopelessness"

04-11-2004, 06:46 AM

Methuselah wrote:

>>>>So, instead, you pass on the problem to some guy in Fremont, the actual
>>>>owner of anydomain.org
>
> Hey look:
>
> whois whois.arin.net [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
>
> No match found for [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].

Do it without the 'www'

Domain ID

96669531-LROR
Domain Name:ANYDOMAIN.ORG
Created On:26-Mar-2003 00:00:08 UTC
Last Updated On:11-Mar-2004 06:30:15 UTC
Expiration Date:26-Mar-2005 00:00:08 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R42-LROR
Status:OK
Registrant ID:0-758337-Gandi
Registrant Name:Uber Hacker
Registrant Organization:Uber Hacker
Registrant Street1:1230 Beethoven Common
Registrant Street2:Apt 201
Registrant City:Fremont
Registrant State/Province:CA

etc.

--
Keith Willoughby [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
"on day release from hopelessness"

04-11-2004, 07:16 AM

"Methuselah" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
news:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]...
>
> >
> >So, instead, you pass on the problem to some guy in Fremont, the actual
> >owner of anydomain.org
>
> Fixed. Just try to guess a name that has not been taken. Thanks for
> the clue.

Use "mouse-potato.com" or "mousepotato.com". Why?

Ralph Sims, the founder of halcyon.com, my old beloved ISP, set up
mouse-potato.com and mousepotato.com as mail sink holes. These domains
resolve to 127.0.0.1, the universal "loopback" IP address which refers to
the local machine. For example, if I try to connect to mouse-potato.com, I
really just open a connection to the machine I'm typing on right now. If you
try to connect to mouse-potato.com, you merely connect to the machine your
typing on. And so on, universally, across the entire Internet.

Thus: anyone who tries to send spam email to an address in the
mouse-potato.com or mousepotato.com domain not only fails to get their
message to a real person, the message *never leaves the machine they're
using to send the message*. You get it? The spam not only fails to harass
real people, but also fails to bog down servers, routers, and connections,
across the entire Internet. The mouse-potato/mousepotato addresses are ideal
for things like Usenet which are heavily mined by spammers for "fresh" email
addresses.

I turned to munging my email address relatively recently, using the
mouse-potato domain, after about 10 years of posting to Usenet with my real
name and address. It was the swen.gibe virus that drove me to that practice.

Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Please replace earthlink for mouse-potato and .net for .com
Home of the meditative cyclist:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
See the books I've set free at: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

04-11-2004, 07:16 AM

"Methuselah" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
news:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]...
>
> >
> >So, instead, you pass on the problem to some guy in Fremont, the actual
> >owner of anydomain.org
>
> Fixed. Just try to guess a name that has not been taken. Thanks for
> the clue.

Use "mouse-potato.com" or "mousepotato.com". Why?

Ralph Sims, the founder of halcyon.com, my old beloved ISP, set up
mouse-potato.com and mousepotato.com as mail sink holes. These domains
resolve to 127.0.0.1, the universal "loopback" IP address which refers to
the local machine. For example, if I try to connect to mouse-potato.com, I
really just open a connection to the machine I'm typing on right now. If you
try to connect to mouse-potato.com, you merely connect to the machine your
typing on. And so on, universally, across the entire Internet.

Thus: anyone who tries to send spam email to an address in the
mouse-potato.com or mousepotato.com domain not only fails to get their
message to a real person, the message *never leaves the machine they're
using to send the message*. You get it? The spam not only fails to harass
real people, but also fails to bog down servers, routers, and connections,
across the entire Internet. The mouse-potato/mousepotato addresses are ideal
for things like Usenet which are heavily mined by spammers for "fresh" email
addresses.

I turned to munging my email address relatively recently, using the
mouse-potato domain, after about 10 years of posting to Usenet with my real
name and address. It was the swen.gibe virus that drove me to that practice.

Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Please replace earthlink for mouse-potato and .net for .com
Home of the meditative cyclist:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
See the books I've set free at: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

04-11-2004, 07:16 AM

"Methuselah" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
news:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]...
>
> >
> >So, instead, you pass on the problem to some guy in Fremont, the actual
> >owner of anydomain.org
>
> Fixed. Just try to guess a name that has not been taken. Thanks for
> the clue.

Use "mouse-potato.com" or "mousepotato.com". Why?

Ralph Sims, the founder of halcyon.com, my old beloved ISP, set up
mouse-potato.com and mousepotato.com as mail sink holes. These domains
resolve to 127.0.0.1, the universal "loopback" IP address which refers to
the local machine. For example, if I try to connect to mouse-potato.com, I
really just open a connection to the machine I'm typing on right now. If you
try to connect to mouse-potato.com, you merely connect to the machine your
typing on. And so on, universally, across the entire Internet.

Thus: anyone who tries to send spam email to an address in the
mouse-potato.com or mousepotato.com domain not only fails to get their
message to a real person, the message *never leaves the machine they're
using to send the message*. You get it? The spam not only fails to harass
real people, but also fails to bog down servers, routers, and connections,
across the entire Internet. The mouse-potato/mousepotato addresses are ideal
for things like Usenet which are heavily mined by spammers for "fresh" email
addresses.

I turned to munging my email address relatively recently, using the
mouse-potato domain, after about 10 years of posting to Usenet with my real
name and address. It was the swen.gibe virus that drove me to that practice.

Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Please replace earthlink for mouse-potato and .net for .com
Home of the meditative cyclist:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
See the books I've set free at: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

04-11-2004, 01:55 PM

"Claire Petersky" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
news:Aqcec.111279$gA5.1448513@attbi_s03...
>
> "Methuselah" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
> news:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]...
> >
> > >
> > >So, instead, you pass on the problem to some guy in Fremont, the actual
> > >owner of anydomain.org
> >
> > Fixed. Just try to guess a name that has not been taken. Thanks for
> > the clue.
>
> Use "mouse-potato.com" or "mousepotato.com". Why?
>
> Ralph Sims, the founder of halcyon.com, my old beloved ISP, set up
> mouse-potato.com and mousepotato.com as mail sink holes. These domains
> resolve to 127.0.0.1, the universal "loopback" IP address which refers to
> the local machine. For example, if I try to connect to mouse-potato.com, I
> really just open a connection to the machine I'm typing on right now. If
you
> try to connect to mouse-potato.com, you merely connect to the machine your
> typing on. And so on, universally, across the entire Internet.
>
> Thus: anyone who tries to send spam email to an address in the
> mouse-potato.com or mousepotato.com domain not only fails to get their
> message to a real person, the message *never leaves the machine they're
> using to send the message*. You get it? The spam not only fails to harass
> real people, but also fails to bog down servers, routers, and connections,
> across the entire Internet. The mouse-potato/mousepotato addresses are
ideal
> for things like Usenet which are heavily mined by spammers for "fresh"
email
> addresses.
>
> I turned to munging my email address relatively recently, using the
> mouse-potato domain, after about 10 years of posting to Usenet with my
real
> name and address. It was the swen.gibe virus that drove me to that
practice.
>
>

Thanks Claire! I just changed my Usenet email address to the domain you
suggested. I had been using schwinn.com, but I don't feel too bad about that
since they're not really Schwinn anymore. Your tip is very useful.

04-11-2004, 01:55 PM

"Claire Petersky" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
news:Aqcec.111279$gA5.1448513@attbi_s03...
>
> "Methuselah" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
> news:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]...
> >
> > >
> > >So, instead, you pass on the problem to some guy in Fremont, the actual
> > >owner of anydomain.org
> >
> > Fixed. Just try to guess a name that has not been taken. Thanks for
> > the clue.
>
> Use "mouse-potato.com" or "mousepotato.com". Why?
>
> Ralph Sims, the founder of halcyon.com, my old beloved ISP, set up
> mouse-potato.com and mousepotato.com as mail sink holes. These domains
> resolve to 127.0.0.1, the universal "loopback" IP address which refers to
> the local machine. For example, if I try to connect to mouse-potato.com, I
> really just open a connection to the machine I'm typing on right now. If
you
> try to connect to mouse-potato.com, you merely connect to the machine your
> typing on. And so on, universally, across the entire Internet.
>
> Thus: anyone who tries to send spam email to an address in the
> mouse-potato.com or mousepotato.com domain not only fails to get their
> message to a real person, the message *never leaves the machine they're
> using to send the message*. You get it? The spam not only fails to harass
> real people, but also fails to bog down servers, routers, and connections,
> across the entire Internet. The mouse-potato/mousepotato addresses are
ideal
> for things like Usenet which are heavily mined by spammers for "fresh"
email
> addresses.
>
> I turned to munging my email address relatively recently, using the
> mouse-potato domain, after about 10 years of posting to Usenet with my
real
> name and address. It was the swen.gibe virus that drove me to that
practice.
>
>

Thanks Claire! I just changed my Usenet email address to the domain you
suggested. I had been using schwinn.com, but I don't feel too bad about that
since they're not really Schwinn anymore. Your tip is very useful.

04-11-2004, 01:55 PM

"Claire Petersky" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
news:Aqcec.111279$gA5.1448513@attbi_s03...
>
> "Methuselah" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
> news:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]...
> >
> > >
> > >So, instead, you pass on the problem to some guy in Fremont, the actual
> > >owner of anydomain.org
> >
> > Fixed. Just try to guess a name that has not been taken. Thanks for
> > the clue.
>
> Use "mouse-potato.com" or "mousepotato.com". Why?
>
> Ralph Sims, the founder of halcyon.com, my old beloved ISP, set up
> mouse-potato.com and mousepotato.com as mail sink holes. These domains
> resolve to 127.0.0.1, the universal "loopback" IP address which refers to
> the local machine. For example, if I try to connect to mouse-potato.com, I
> really just open a connection to the machine I'm typing on right now. If
you
> try to connect to mouse-potato.com, you merely connect to the machine your
> typing on. And so on, universally, across the entire Internet.
>
> Thus: anyone who tries to send spam email to an address in the
> mouse-potato.com or mousepotato.com domain not only fails to get their
> message to a real person, the message *never leaves the machine they're
> using to send the message*. You get it? The spam not only fails to harass
> real people, but also fails to bog down servers, routers, and connections,
> across the entire Internet. The mouse-potato/mousepotato addresses are
ideal
> for things like Usenet which are heavily mined by spammers for "fresh"
email
> addresses.
>
> I turned to munging my email address relatively recently, using the
> mouse-potato domain, after about 10 years of posting to Usenet with my
real
> name and address. It was the swen.gibe virus that drove me to that
practice.
>
>

Thanks Claire! I just changed my Usenet email address to the domain you
suggested. I had been using schwinn.com, but I don't feel too bad about that
since they're not really Schwinn anymore. Your tip is very useful.

04-11-2004, 01:55 PM

"Claire Petersky" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
news:Aqcec.111279$gA5.1448513@attbi_s03...
>
> "Methuselah" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
> news:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]...
> >
> > >
> > >So, instead, you pass on the problem to some guy in Fremont, the actual
> > >owner of anydomain.org
> >
> > Fixed. Just try to guess a name that has not been taken. Thanks for
> > the clue.
>
> Use "mouse-potato.com" or "mousepotato.com". Why?
>
> Ralph Sims, the founder of halcyon.com, my old beloved ISP, set up
> mouse-potato.com and mousepotato.com as mail sink holes. These domains
> resolve to 127.0.0.1, the universal "loopback" IP address which refers to
> the local machine. For example, if I try to connect to mouse-potato.com, I
> really just open a connection to the machine I'm typing on right now. If
you
> try to connect to mouse-potato.com, you merely connect to the machine your
> typing on. And so on, universally, across the entire Internet.
>
> Thus: anyone who tries to send spam email to an address in the
> mouse-potato.com or mousepotato.com domain not only fails to get their
> message to a real person, the message *never leaves the machine they're
> using to send the message*. You get it? The spam not only fails to harass
> real people, but also fails to bog down servers, routers, and connections,
> across the entire Internet. The mouse-potato/mousepotato addresses are
ideal
> for things like Usenet which are heavily mined by spammers for "fresh"
email
> addresses.
>
> I turned to munging my email address relatively recently, using the
> mouse-potato domain, after about 10 years of posting to Usenet with my
real
> name and address. It was the swen.gibe virus that drove me to that
practice.
>
>

Thanks Claire! I just changed my Usenet email address to the domain you
suggested. I had been using schwinn.com, but I don't feel too bad about that
since they're not really Schwinn anymore. Your tip is very useful.

04-11-2004, 08:58 PM

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:16:00 GMT, "Claire Petersky"
<[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:

>Ralph Sims, the founder of halcyon.com, my old beloved ISP, set up
>mouse-potato.com and mousepotato.com as mail sink holes. These domains
>resolve to 127.0.0.1, the universal "loopback" IP address which refers to
>the local machine. For example, if I try to connect to mouse-potato.com, I

>I turned to munging my email address relatively recently, using the
>mouse-potato domain, after about 10 years of posting to Usenet with my real
>name and address. It was the swen.gibe virus that drove me to that practice.

Great idea. I'm gonna do that too.

Michael J. Klein