A public Bit Bucket Address

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A public Bit Bucket Address

Postby mysticturner » Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:16 pm

I've thought that the following should exist here, and maybe it does and I've just never found it. Do we have a public route to the bit bucket? I'm thinking of an address that uses a publicly known userid. Anything sent to that userid gets tossed immediately upon arrival. No searching. No questions to think about.

The idea behind this is that all of us can give this address to anyone, and the only thing that ever happens is that mail sent there increases the total spam counter. The reason for doing it is nearly zero CPU cycles to process all of this spam, although it would consume bandwidth at our ISP. The address would be hard coded in the software, and only one compare occurs after the userid is isolated. A match says bump the counter and skip to the next msg.
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Postby Paranoid2000 » Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:41 am

The address me (at) privacy (dot) net can be used for that purpose (and me0, me1, me2 if just me... is rejected by a web form). Messages sent to that address did trigger an auto-reply saying that the user did not wish to reveal their real address - I'm not sure that it still does this though but given the amount of use it's seen, messages sent to it should still be blackholed.
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