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Old March 21st 04, 04:44 PM
Martin Hotze
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On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:33:28 -0500, Peter Clark wrote:

Difference is that I'm doing this for spam avoidance.


Then don't use a domain that possibly could be available or be in use.
use a non existing/invalid TLD.


I rather thought I had since I do occasionally check to see that mail
would bounce if someone did attempt to mail me:

; DiG 9.2.1 yourlifetime.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 64708
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0


this could change within 1 minute.

but fine, if it makes you both feel better.


thanks. :-)

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