[Scspamcop] Re: Faux addresses:

[Mike Easter]

Tim McGraw wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> All in all, it would be better to use an invalid domainname than to
>> use nobody at spamcop.net IMO notwithstanding the recommendations in
>> the faq and elsewhere.
>
> Another thing that works just as well as your suggestion of ".invalid"
> is to use YourCleverHandle at domain.tld.

The theoretical advantage of 'invalid' over 'tld' is that it has been
'declared' that the string invalid is not now nor will it ever be a TLD,
whereas it has never been so declared that there will never be any such
TLD as 'tld'.  Currently there is no such TLD as tld, but that doesn't
mean that there never will be.  There will never be an .invalid TLD.

Some people also choose to put some kind of illegal characters into the
domainname so as to make it invalid without using the word 'invalid'
which looks like...

in'-vuh-lid - an infirm or sickly person

..instead of...

in-val'-id - not legally or factually valid; null: an invalid license.


There are all kinds of characters which might render an otherwise valid
domainname 'in'-valid

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin