Comments on: Spam-blocking sub-domains

By: Don

Don — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:32:10 +0000

LOL@Matt. Your suggestions reminded me of this:
http://www.v1r4l.com/2010/02/12/dirty-balls/

By: matt

matt — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:13:07 +0000

finding the middle ground between actually insulting them and having them not realize it at first is tough. you could also go for the “as difficult as possible” route like:
@dash.-dot
@ate8eight
or any of these: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/27MichaelWard.html

or how about a word that could be dirty but they can’t really be sure? like
@balls

or finally, something that they wouldn’t think of when listening, but they’d recognize when they saw it. kind of the opposite of the “heywood jablomi” effect, like:
@s-hit
@as-swipe

By: dMullins

dMullins — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:52:22 +0000

@abuse seems the most logical though for me.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:09:07 +0000

Maybe “abuse” or “xabuse”.. i think that’s what AOL will put into the headers of mail deemed of a solicitous nature.
It would be funny to used something like: “false” or “unverified” or “temporary” — that way when asked “is this a temporary email account?” you can always fall back on, “No… it’s permanent” adding, “Until it’s sold or abused, then it will be documented, reported and deleted.”

By: Zeh

Zeh — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:33:56 +0000

*@junk.*
Or maybe something that won’t make people raise their eyebrows, like *@out.*