Keep your e-mail mungled.

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Brian Huntley <[email hidden]> wrote:
: It's actually a registered domain, Claire. Someone in Seattle, of all places, registered it in
: September 2002. He doesn't seem to have a web server, but may well be using it for mail.

weird. mousepotato.com is registered but neither of its DNS servers (ns2.sims.cc and ns3.sims.cc)
resolves "mousepotato.com" .. it does have a mail exchanger (MX) record (which tells where to
route email going to that domain) tho and that points to ..

mail.mouse-potato.com

which in turn resolves to

127..0.1

which, umm, well 127.0.0.1 refers to the machine you are on (aka

localhost).

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which is pretty strange.

in english someone seems to have set mousepotato.com up to be a mail sink hole. if not a minor
PITA if you happen to be running an MTA on your

local

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box.

A little research caused me to discover that Ralph Sims, the founder of halcyon, my old beloved ISP,
set up mouse-potato.com as, as you put it, a mail sink hole. He's probably the guy in Seattle that
registered the mousepotato domain in 2002 -- wouldn't surprise me. I now know to put the hyphen in
"mouse-potato" -- thanks.

Here's a quote from an old posting from some place else:

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For folks who don't know, mouse-potato.com is a domain Ralph set up that resolves 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
someone in Peoria tries to connect to mouse-potato.com, they merely connect the machine *they're*
typing on. And so on, universally, across the entire Internet.

Seems sorta pointless until you consider the implications: anyone who tries to send spam email to an
address in the mouse-potato.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*. Thus, the spam not only fails
to harass real people, but also fails to bog down servers, routers, and connections across the
entire Internet.

Thus, mouse-potato addresses are ideal for things like Usenet which are heavily mined by spammers
for "fresh" email addresses, but in which you don't necessarily need to use a working email address
in order to participate. Like, Web sites that want your address, but don't have a privacy policy and
you never want to hear from anyway. :-)
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Thought you'd like to know -- and perhaps mouse-potato would be helpful for others here?

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Claire Petersky said:

A little research caused me to discover that Ralph Sims, the founder of halcyon, my old beloved
ISP, set up mouse-potato.com as, as you put it, a mail sink hole. He's probably the guy in Seattle
that registered the mousepotato domain in 2002 -- wouldn't surprise me. I now know to put the
hyphen in "mouse-potato" -- thanks.

It is, indeed, registered to Mr. Sims. I didn't mention his name at first as I wasn't aware of his
intentions. He's registered both hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions, by the way. Cute.

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Thought you'd like to know -- and perhaps mouse-potato would be helpful for others here?

That's a good one to know. Thanks, Claire.

Matt O.

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:46:20 GMT, "Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> from Comcast

Online said:

Thought you'd like to know -- and perhaps mouse-potato would be helpful for others here?

Thanks! 🙂

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Kevan Smith said:

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:46:20 GMT, "Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> from Comcast

Online said:

Thought you'd like to know -- and perhaps mouse-potato would be helpful for others here?

Thanks! 🙂

There's also The Mailinator. Handy for signing up for things that require you to receive a password
but which you don't ever want to use again. The name you choose doesn't matter, as long as it isn't
a duplicate of one already existing, and anybody who knows the name can go and read the message.
It's handy because you can give a name that you make up on the spot, go there a little while later
to pick up the password, and then go away secure in the knowledge that the message and name will
evaporate within some short amount of time -- maybe a day.

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The Real Bev said:

There's also The Mailinator. Handy for signing up for things that require you to receive a
password but which you don't ever want to use again. The name you choose doesn't matter, as long
as it isn't a duplicate of one already existing, and anybody who knows the name can go and read
the message. It's handy because you can give a name that you make up on the spot, go there a
little while later to pick up the password, and then go away secure in the knowledge that the
message and name will evaporate within some short amount of time -- maybe a day.

mailinator.comWelcome.doOpen ↗

Thanks.

I've been looking for this site for quite some time, as I completely forgot the address.

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Johann S. said:

The Real Bev said:

There's also The Mailinator. Handy for signing up for things that require you to receive a
password but which you don't ever want to use again. The name you choose doesn't matter, as
long as it isn't a duplicate of one already existing,

Upon reflection, I don't think that matters. Both people would have access to both messages and it
would be up to them to sort out which was the one they wanted. Carry on...

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and anybody who knows the name can go and read the message. It's handy because you can give a
name that you make up on the spot, go there a little while later to pick up the password, and
then go away secure in the knowledge that the message and name will evaporate within some short
amount of time -- maybe a day.

mailinator.comWelcome.doOpen ↗

Thanks.

I've been looking for this site for quite some time, as I completely forgot the address.

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