[HN Gopher] A little trick to spam the spammers
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A little trick to spam the spammers
Author : sodimel
Score : 154 points
Date : 2022-07-26 19:11 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (misc.l3m.in)
(TXT) w3m dump (misc.l3m.in)
| bcrosby95 wrote:
| I used to run a mud back in the late 90s. When we nerfed
| something a disgruntled player signed up all the admin emails for
| every piece of spam they could find.
|
| It was a huge pain in the butt. Nowadays we would probably barely
| notice.
| AdmiralAsshat wrote:
| Get the site onto the frontpage of HN and hug the spammers to
| death? I like it.
| mrtweetyhack wrote:
| ccn0p wrote:
| OK now let's do SMS spam. I get daily reminders from recorded
| idiots telling me that I qualify for a low-rate business loan!
| How exciting! I dream of exploring who's actually behind these
| and wasting their time ala Giovanni Ribisi in Boiler Room. but
| then I do nothing and go back to what I was doing.
| divbzero wrote:
| The design of this blog is delightfully readable: no popups, no
| banners, no FOUC as I wait for a beautiful webfont to load.
| wizofaus wrote:
| Except for the "beautiful webfront" bit, that was my experience
| too - no popups/banners/ads while waiting patiently for it to
| finally load the "Connection timed out" page.
| [deleted]
| sodimel wrote:
| If you're speaking about l3m.in I removed unused chars from
| the font I load (using the super tool on fontsquirrel
| website) in order to make it lighter. I save the banner
| images in webp format too (with a liiiittle bit of gaussian
| blur in order to reduce the size even more) :P
|
| The real problem here is my internet connection ; my top
| upload speed seems to be something like 100-200ko/s, which
| isn't very much when there's a lot of people loading various
| parts of my self-hosted websites :(
| wizofaus wrote:
| The link is to a txt file! Anyway the archive link someone
| else posted seems to work fine (I still can't load the
| original link).
| sodimel wrote:
| Oh, ok. On this folder (https://misc.l3m.in/txt/) there
| is a link to my main website (won't post the link here in
| order to reduce the load) and I thought you were talking
| about it :P
|
| Keep refreshing like anyone (I guess), my server is at
| 1.5% of load average, you should be able to access this
| txt file, if my slow connection is allowing you to reach
| my server :/
| IronWolve wrote:
| Speaking of annoying email lists, spammers are using government
| state/federal email lists that dont need confirmation. Trolls can
| just sub people up to hundreds of daily emails. How about spam
| someone all the train/bus schedules for a city? DOT updates,
| parks and rec, health updates, DHS, ICE, weather, etc.
|
| You cant just remove yourself with replying either, you have to
| go to a website and remove them, either 1 at a time or if lucky a
| unsubscribe all.
|
| But its ironic the government email lists are being abused to
| such an extent to annoy people.
|
| I had users get caught in such an attack, but easily enough to
| just spam their domains. Hammer solution, but quick fix.
| codetrotter wrote:
| I wonder if most sites maintain any of the following addresses or
| not for externally incoming mail:
| hostmaster@<domain> postmaster@<domain>
| webmaster@<domain> dns-admin@<domain>
| info@<domain> contact@<domain> root@<domain>
|
| (And if they do, if anyone is actually reading the mail coming to
| those addresses.)
|
| I used to but I got so much spam and 0 actually legit mails to
| these addresses on my own domains so I stopped accepting
| externally incoming mails for those names/aliases.
| djbusby wrote:
| I still run those names for many domains I operate. Only info@
| gets the spam. The others are quiet - but I've actually gotten
| real emails (in 2022 even) to postmaster and hostmaster.
| dsl wrote:
| Every email to legal@ has to be read by any legitimate site,
| thanks to GDPR/CCPA. Not that you'll get a response.
| logifail wrote:
| Could you give references for this?
| edm0nd wrote:
| I do not believe that is how the joke laws that are GDPR/CCPA
| operates.
| urda wrote:
| Hardly, and especially no to the GDPR. As a US citizen
| operating my own US site, doing no business with the EU, I do
| not care nor am I required to comply with EU law that has no
| bearing on a US citizen like me.
| legitster wrote:
| > As a US citizen operating my own US site, doing no
| business with the EU, I do not care nor am I required to
| comply with EU law that has no bearing on a US citizen like
| me.
|
| It's actually a bit more complicated than that. Our
| expensive GDPR lawyers have made it clear there is still
| _some_ amount of risk.
|
| The example was of a German citizen booking American hotels
| for their vacation. Under the wording of the GDPR law, if
| their data was breached, the hotel could be held liable
| under a German court.
|
| Now, the realisticness of this actually going to court or
| there being any meaningful penalty has not really been
| tested, but it's our corporate policy not to be the first
| ones to do so. So even for signup forms targeting Americans
| for American events, legal has asked us to specify to
| always collect country information (so we know what GDPR
| rules to process this person under) or include a dumb
| disclaimer that people from certain countries should not
| sign up.
| aendruk wrote:
| I suspect spammers might have given up on that. I get almost
| nothing for webmaster at a domain that receives plenty of spam
| and phishing attacks on other email addresses, and a constant
| barrage of spam into the web contact form.
| Avamander wrote:
| Not given up, I'd expect them to avoid those addresses to
| avoid blocklists and abuse reports.
| bitbang wrote:
| I will often provide the email address postmaster@hashbang.com
| for people insisting they need an email address who have no
| legitimate reason doing so. (hashbang.com resolves to
| localhost. Thanks twocows...)
| legitster wrote:
| These types of addresses are actually used by corporate anti-
| spam software and they are called "honeypots". The idea being
| you setup a inbox with no public email address and report any
| IP Addresses sending it emails. There is no legitimate reason
| someone should be emailing these addresses, so it's an obvious
| flag that someone is being naughty.
| iamacyborg wrote:
| There are plenty of legit reasons to be mailing some of those
| addresses.
| ithinkso wrote:
| There were*
| NullPrefix wrote:
| iamacyborg wrote:
| No, there are. I still see masses of businesses signing
| up for b2b products using contact@ or info@ addresses.
| thallium205 wrote:
| Don't sites still use these emails to verify domain
| ownership?
| [deleted]
| rascul wrote:
| https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2142
| legitster wrote:
| > SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
|
| > Denial of service attacks (flooding a mailbox with junk)
| will be easier after this document becomes a standard,
| since more systems will support the same set of mailbox
| names.
| autoexec wrote:
| I've managed a number of RFC 2142 mailboxes and while
| they all got spam (the dumb spammers would even send to
| abuse@!) it wasn't any worse than the other published
| email addresses on those systems and the volume was spam
| was still less than what our typical user would see
| (since nobody using postmaster@ used it to sign up for
| everything under the sun).
|
| The spam we got was often useful for abuse handling and
| spam filtering too. It was a good thing!
|
| Every network should have an abuse@ address. Web forms
| are pretty popular these days too, but every extra hoop
| you force reporters to jump through can cut down on the
| reports you get of problems on your network. It's worth
| dealing with the spam to make sure you're getting
| notified as quickly as possible.
| boshomi wrote:
| https://archive.ph/PyCa9
| sodimel wrote:
| Thanks, my tiny web server still got plenty of power but my
| connection is pretty terrible today :/
| jedberg wrote:
| Since the site is down, what's the trick?
| legitster wrote:
| The entirety of the post:
|
| > published: 26/07/21 (dd/mm/yy) > updated: not yet
|
| > A little trick to spam the spammers.
|
| > When I find a "get X free" button on a website that then asks
| for my email address, I like to search for the email of the
| company behind the website (sometimes it's on the legal page,
| or the privacy policy page) and I submit their email. I also
| make sure to check the "sign me up for the newsletter" box, to
| make sure the spammers get at least one of their messages.
|
| > I don't really know why I do this, it seemed funny a few
| months ago when I started and now I do it out of habit.
|
| > I now keep a list of emails from these spam sites, and
| subscribe them all to the various newsletters I find if I have
| 5 minutes.
| sodimel wrote:
| The site is not down, but my poor upload connection prevent you
| all to have access to this glorious _txt_ file, sorry :(
| rolph wrote:
| im sure theres a script for that somewhere about.
| sacrosancty wrote:
| I used to get spam from a Chinese exporter who conveniently
| included their actual address in the emails. One day I happened
| to be visiting their city and went to their office and asked them
| to unsubscribe me in person. The lady was very confused and first
| thought I wanted to buy something. I showed her the spam on my
| phone and she agreed but didn't bother actually removing me. Just
| seemed to think I was a bit stupid for travelling so far (I was
| also a foreigner) to complain about a spam. It was interesting to
| see what those companies look like in real life though - an
| office filled with piles of widgets and cartons of deliveries
| everywhere. These Chinese exporter spammers do tend to be
| legitimate businesses and they can actually provide good cheap
| access to manufacturers but they harvest emails from everywhere
| if there's any hint you might work in a related industry.
| dylan604 wrote:
| There's no bette motivater than having an upset customer in
| your presence. I have camped outside the office of someone
| until a situation was resolved.
| [deleted]
| informalo wrote:
| Details please
| rubatuga wrote:
| Do tell
| ashton314 wrote:
| Chaotic good right there.
| dredmorbius wrote:
| The terms ceo@ / sales@ / marketing@ / info@ <domain> can be fun.
|
| Or state-level intelligence addresses / TLAs of various stripes.
| dawnerd wrote:
| I also like using support@, surprising number use that to
| create tickets which can annoy someone very quickly.
| 1nd1ansumm3r wrote:
| The trick works in analog too. Just stuff the pre-paid business
| reply mail with other junk mail.
| kibibyte wrote:
| That's a classic. http://bash.org/?127039
|
| I do occasionally wonder if it would still work, but most
| business reply mail type spam has been supplanted by email
| nowadays.
| danuker wrote:
| I spent hours on bash.org when I found it a few years ago.
| Thank you for reminding me of it!
| tanseydavid wrote:
| And by visiting just about any large IT-related convention you
| can easily collect a hundred or more pre-paid business reply
| mail cards.
|
| At least that's what a friend told me. ;)
| reaperducer wrote:
| Similarly, when a store annoys me for an address or phone
| number, and won't take "no" for an answer, I look it up on
| Google Maps and give the clerk the store's information.
|
| Edible Arrangements is the most recent place this happened. The
| store wouldn't sell anything to me without an address and phone
| number, even though I was paying cash. The manager said the POS
| wouldn't even let him start a transaction without collecting
| the information.
|
| So Edible Arrangements' marketing department is now spamming my
| local Edible Arrangements store.
| dylan604 wrote:
| 1212 Main St, City, St (area code) 515 1212 for phone
|
| I gave up trying to explain why I prefer not to have that
| info, so I just give them obviously bogus info that I can
| remember. Most people don't even realize what you're telling
| them. They just robotically enter the numbers. They just want
| to get on with their day as much as you do, and really don't
| want to hear your diatribe about big brother tracking blah
| blah, can you hurry up the line is backing up.
| jorgesborges wrote:
| Yup. When I was signing up at MEC I gave the clerk a fake
| number but accidentally included both the area codes for my
| city as the first six digits: "Whoa that's weird, never
| seen them together like that before." It's easy for me to
| remember now at least.
| legitster wrote:
| I run marketing email databases. This is cute, but it doesn't
| actually do anything in most systems - either the employees all
| already get the marketing emails or there is a system-wide rule
| to suppress against the email domain.
|
| If you actually want to (potentially) break something, try
| submitting some obscure characters or malformed html into some
| fields. Blank spaces in emails can particularly be a nuisance.
|
| And if you want some real fun, some systems only enforce
| validation rules via client-side javascript. If you block them,
| you might be able to submit some _real_ chaotic entries.
| TechBro8615 wrote:
| I think Log4shell was about the closest we got to this. It's
| still crazy to me you could exploit an unknown machine by
| leaving a string of text somewhere and waiting for a vulnerable
| client to process it. I imagine many spammers are running a lot
| of insecure PHP and Perl scripts to support their operation.
| That was certainly the case back in ~2006, and I imagine most
| "new entrant" spammers are not using email but rather social
| media tactics and the like, so I doubt email spam
| infrastructure improved.
|
| That said, the real guilty spammers are the companies doing it
| under the flag of a sales tool. RIP your email if you put it in
| a git commit.
| Jerrrry wrote:
| Blind XSS is a thing.
|
| not my fault you haphazardly inserted <whatever I crafted>
| into an HTML field in some browser at some point in the
| future.
|
| DNS records, facebook statuses, titles of apps on the
| playstore, Wifi SSIDs, BIO's on obscure forums, names of
| children, recipe ingredients, your TV's network nick
| name...anything that can hold the input of a user, that a
| scraper or content mechanism will eventually naively come
| across...
|
| eventually it will get added to the DOM of some unknownst
| messenger, and I will receive a ping, letting me know that
| someone, somewhere, somewhen, sniffed my digital fart.
| ARandomerDude wrote:
| How do you sleep at night?
| Avamander wrote:
| I would also recommend naming yourself Viagra, Cialis or CBD.
| kbenson wrote:
| "Viagra Cialis, CBD" does sort of sound like a name with some
| odd post-nominal...
| dylan604 wrote:
| I want to have my name legally changed to Spam Likely
| legitster wrote:
| This is actually kind of clever, but only if you give us a
| real email address.
|
| We will often take your name and insert them into emails (for
| some dumb reasons around personalization supposedly
| increasing opens). But an email being stuffed full of spam
| words is a good way to get it flagged by anti-spam software
| and potentially hurt our sender reputation score.
|
| You would probably have to do it en masse and use real
| inboxes. A couple other names you could use would be "free",
| "lovers", "singles", or any sort of mid word character
| substitution.
| iamacyborg wrote:
| This reminds me of when I briefly worked at a major luxury
| fashion retailer.
|
| We were not allowed to send emails with "pussy bow" blouses
| as they were getting caught by corporate spam filters
| sodimel wrote:
| I never thought about naming me with potential spam words
| :o
| legitster wrote:
| Please, call me Singles. Hot Young Patriot Singles In
| Your Area is my father.
| incogitomode wrote:
| Keep a short list of your enemies' email addresses and use
| those as the destination for these likely-to-be-flagged
| signups to hedge your bet.
| sodimel wrote:
| The zero-width char seems to be a good candidate, thanks !
| s09dfhks wrote:
| Unicode Character " " (U+2800)
| sodimel wrote:
| I usually use the char from
| https://codepen.io/chriscoyier/pen/iLKwm :D
| alliao wrote:
| you guys are all monsters lol
| sacrosancty wrote:
| The extended version where he sends signs up his list of other
| spammers for each other's newsletters should get around that
| problem.
| Gravyness wrote:
| A trick I like is to fill every form with "null".
| legitster wrote:
| The extent that this bugs us though is pretty minimal. Any
| publicly facing form is going to have to handle massive
| amounts of garbage data as it is (if not just from people,
| from bots as well) so records that cleanly identify
| themselves as garbage save us a ton of time.
| dylan604 wrote:
| It's amazing how Lil' Bobby Drop Tables is still causing
| havoc
| koliber wrote:
| The concept is called "closing the loop."
| avodonosov wrote:
| I do a similar thing with web crawlers that do not respect the
| robots.txt
|
| https://github.com/cl-test-grid/cl-test-grid/blob/873b2fa978...
|
| I don't know if this snippet is really effective, can be improved
| a little, especially that I noticed a couple of new crawlers that
| ignore `User-agent: * Disallow: /path` in robots.txt, and do not
| fix that even after reported.
| gigel82 wrote:
| I'll look into implementing this, nice tip :)
|
| archive.org is the worst offender for me; not only do they
| ignore robots.txt, there is absolutely no way to get something
| removed once they archived it (despite the data including
| accidentally leaked PII for example - which can cause actual
| harm to someone).
| Analemma_ wrote:
| I want archive.org to ignore robots.txt and make it as
| difficult as possible to remove pages from it; it would be a
| broken archive tool if this were not the case.
| ShakataGaNai wrote:
| Just send them a DMCA request, that's their takedown
| mechanism. Is it a good one? No, but that's how they do it.
| You see it posted about all over in their forums.
|
| ex: https://archive.org/post/1022869/site-removal-request
| sodimel wrote:
| That's pretty neat! I should set up something similar for my
| domains that keep being spammed.
| amiga-workbench wrote:
| I wonder if you could abuse gzip compression on responses to
| send a zip bomb back to them.
| Avamander wrote:
| You can, but most bots do timeout. If you get a lot of bad
| bots that are vulnerable, then you'll probably waste a lot of
| resources on those connections.
| winddude wrote:
| Yes you can. There ar also ways to protect the crawler server
| from crashing.
| dawnerd wrote:
| I did just that for a while with a spare server I had. I set
| it up to literally only respond to bad bots. I know the
| crawlers don't care but it amused me at least. I tried to
| also keep redirecting slowly before it could time out. There
| was one bot that seemed to create a new instance each
| redirect so I could keep it in a loop for essentially ever.
| Just about every other bot only followed a few redirects
| before giving up. Fun times.
| grnmamba wrote:
| I just put in random gibberish and submit. Too many undeliverable
| mails can cause the sender be punished by their mailing service.
| edm0nd wrote:
| your website is down homie.
|
| "What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorito?"
| sodimel wrote:
| My tiny webserver is fine, but my connection is pretty low
| today, preventing you to even reach my server :(
|
| Keep refreshing, maybe you will find a way to this txt file :P
| melllvar wrote:
| your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
| lesuorac wrote:
| I've wondered if thats why I can't always sign up for a webpage
| using their domain before the @ (ex.
| ycombinator@personaldomain.com). In that somebody else already
| signed up using webmaster@ycombinator.com and so in response they
| reject any emails containing "ycombinator".
| mwint wrote:
| This seems like a weird and computationally expensive
| validation to perform, but it does explain your observation.
| munk-a wrote:
| As a bonus - write yourself a little browser script that
| accumulates companies you do this to so that you can sign every
| spammer up for every other spammer's mail.
| treeman79 wrote:
| I moved out of California many years ago and their fast pass
| system get calling me daily to inform me my balance was low.
|
| I couldn't get them to stop calling me or cancel the account.
|
| So I changed my phone number to their support line number.
| Never got another call.
|
| 15 years later I wonder if they still call themselves.
| EddieDante wrote:
| This pleases me.
| ortusdux wrote:
| I've been entering in short complaints as email addresses for a
| while now. My hope is that the right person will see "whythehhell
| wouldisignupforyournewsletterafter10seconds@nevercoming.back" and
| get the message.
| legitster wrote:
| I run an email marketing database. You might be pleased to know
| we keep a little "wall of honor" of the best fake emails we've
| been given.
| logifail wrote:
| > the best fake emails we've been given
|
| If I were to do this, the email wouldn't be fake!
|
| I have hundreds of email aliases on my (main) domain, and the
| list keeps on growing.
| ortusdux wrote:
| I have a catchall for my domain, so most sites get a unique
| website@mydomain.com email and a unique password. Not only
| does is help against password leaks but I also can find out
| very quickly if someone sells the unique address.
| willcipriano wrote:
| I have a 3 character plus tld domain for this purpose. I
| used to run my own server with Postfix and Dovecot, I was
| able to deliver mail and it all worked but Microsoft can
| do the same thing for less money and effort.
|
| The best part of running Postfix was I could add domains
| and addresses to a denylist and it would bounce the email
| and the senders server would often put a REJECTED message
| in their inbox. The email equivalent of slamming the
| door.
| srcreigh wrote:
| Care to share any?
| legitster wrote:
| Most of them are just various conjugations of swearwords or
| attempted script injections.
| toddm wrote:
| Reminds me of one of my favorite meeting abstracts from David
| Mazieres and Eddie Kohler at Stanford:
|
| https://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf
| the_biot wrote:
| When I get spam from a local-ish company I always send an abuse
| mail to their ISP or email provider. Sometimes it's ignored and I
| keep getting spam from that particular bunch of shitheads.
|
| So I set up my .forward to bounce spam from that company right
| back to any email addresses I can find for them _and_ their ISP.
| Every spam I get, I add another copy to the list. The folks at
| xertog.com currently get 8 copies each to their noc@, sales@ etc
| for every spam they send me.
| GordonS wrote:
| Wow, that's dedication!
| timwis wrote:
| Aren't you worried about your own domain getting flagged for
| spam since you're effectively (forwarding) sending spam?
| the_biot wrote:
| Yeah, these spam-friendly ISPs might flag me for forwarding
| their spam. Quaking in my boots as we speak.
| sam0x17 wrote:
| I remember in '09 or thereabouts there was a tool called
| SpamItBack that literally would just send spam all day to known
| spam addresses while you let it run.
| aendruk wrote:
| Usually I'll add +myfeelings on the local part in case their MTA
| does subaddressing. And making it unique increases the chances of
| adding a new entry to their list.
| devonnull wrote:
| This reminds me of a trick a friend used to do: he'd collect the
| email addresses of spammers who'd targeted and put them into file
| on his website. Not sure whether that worked or not, but it's fun
| to imagine that it did.
| sodimel wrote:
| Some french blogger did this to people contacting him for
| putting sponsored content on his website.
|
| The text on his contact page literally start with "warning: if
| you want to pay me to put something on my site your email
| address will be leaked on this page". Funny how many people
| won't read any content of a website but still want to pay in
| order to put content on them :P
| DonHopkins wrote:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12951917
|
| DonHopkins on Nov 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on:
| The NHS's 1.2M employees are trapped in a 'reply-a...
|
| Back in the days of ARPANET mailing lists, there used to be an
| "educational" mailing list called "please-remove-me", that was
| for people who asked an entire mailing list to remove them,
| instead of removing themselves, or sending email to the
| administrative "-request" address.
|
| So when somebody asked an entire mailing list to remove them,
| somebody else would add them to the "please-remove-me" mailing
| list, and they would start getting hundreds of "please remove me"
| requests from other people, so they could discuss the topic of
| being removed from mailing lists with people with similar
| interests, without bothering people on mailing lists whose topics
| weren't about being removed from mailing lists.
|
| It worked so well that it was a victim of its own success:
| Eventually the "please-remove-me" mailing list was so popular
| that it got too big and had to be shut down...
|
| ...Then there was Jordan Hubbard's infamous "rwall incident" in
| 1987:
|
| http://everything2.com/title/Jordan+K.+Hubbard
| temp0826 wrote:
| Something similar happened (multiple times?) when I worked at
| AWS when someone decided to send a mass email to literally the
| entire company and people inevitably reply-all enough to clog
| the system and bring it to its knees. Many confused people were
| replying "UNSUBSCRIBE" (again, to the whole company) as if it
| would take them off
| hinkley wrote:
| Then you get a group of people panicked about the panic who
| start replying all saying please stop replying all to this
| email, and then people replying to them to point out how they
| are just making the problem worse...
| Akronymus wrote:
| Or a few people have autoreplies that they are out of the
| office...
| hinkley wrote:
| Hey it's a party, everyone is invited!
| dvtrn wrote:
| _right clicks thread, mouses over "create new rule", begins
| sweating profusely_
| nonameiguess wrote:
| This happened to the _entire US federal government_ in 2014.
| Someone reply-all 'd a mailing from the General Fund
| Enterprise Business System notification asking to be taken
| off the list, and it escalated as then thousands of people
| who didn't realize they were on this list did the same thing,
| then got worse when smart asses reply-all'd telling other
| people not to reply-all.
| dylan604 wrote:
| Part of the problem is from admins creating lists and
| putting users on them without user knowing anything about
| it. Can you blame users for being confused and seeking to
| get off a list in the only way they know how? IT Admins
| bear blame in these incidents. The users just make it fun
| for everyone but IT, but IT hopefully sees the fun later
| when they aren't running around putting out the fire
| lwswl wrote:
| state duplication
| molticrystal wrote:
| In more modern times, within the last couple months, there was
| the Epic/Unreal Engine Github Email Storm[0][1] at minium 60m
| emails, because a few hundred thousand people were getting over
| a hundred emails within a minute or so thanks to a user trying
| to get a minor patch pulled in so they could get some
| credit/resume line/who knows. They "@"tted the whole membership
| of the organization. There was a few repeats of the occurrence
| immediately afterwards as well by some trolls.
|
| A fun aside is the article on wikipedia [1] begins with Jordan
| Hubbard and ends with Epic:
|
| [0] https://linustechtips.com/topic/1435395-epic-games-github-
| em...
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061
|
| [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm
| banana_giraffe wrote:
| Reminds me of Bedlam DL3 at Microsoft:
|
| https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me...
| dmitryminkovsky wrote:
| Thanks for re-sharing!
| janci wrote:
| Once I got on some internal distribution list of a client. I
| was not needing those emails, plus they were all in Hungarian I
| do not understand a word. I tried multiple times to contact the
| sender and asked to remove me to no avail.
|
| The ultimate thing that helped immediately: reply-all to
| hundred recipients. (Also got my account blocked from sending
| emails for a while. Fun)
| mcnesium wrote:
| > discuss the topic of being removed from mailing lists with
| people with similar interests
|
| lol
| Minor49er wrote:
| I basically do this too, though I just put in some random
| gibberish (or "admin" or "info" or something) before the domain.
| I figure they probably have some catchall email address, and if
| not, nothing wasted
|
| On the other hand, if you _do_ want a one-time piece of email,
| but don 't want to be subscribed to a mailing list, check out
| sharklasers.com. It's a free temporary email service that works
| pretty well
| sodimel wrote:
| I usually search "tempmail service" on some search engine and
| take a random link.
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