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xkcd: *@gmail.com

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Lynn McGuire

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Aug 31, 2023, 3:38:22 PM8/31/23
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xkcd: *@gmail.com
https://xkcd.com/2822/

Oh yes, that would be an email apocalypse.

Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2822:_*@gmail.com

Lynn

Lynn McGuire

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Aug 31, 2023, 3:40:54 PM8/31/23
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There are 1.8 BILLION gmail addresses, really ?

Lynn

Dimensional Traveler

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Aug 31, 2023, 3:52:35 PM8/31/23
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They are the go-to email service for bogus edresses for spam and one
time signups.

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kaiser

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Aug 31, 2023, 8:47:41 PM8/31/23
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On 31 Aug 2023 at 16:52:32 GMT-3, "Dimensional Traveler" <dtr...@sonic.net>
wrote:

> On 8/31/2023 12:40 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 8/31/2023 2:38 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> xkcd: *@gmail.com
>>> https://xkcd.com/2822/
>>>
>>> Oh yes, that would be an email apocalypse.
>>>
>>> Explained at:
>>> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2822:_*@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Lynn
>>
>> There are 1.8 BILLION gmail addresses, really ?
>>
> They are the go-to email service for bogus edresses for spam and one
> time signups.

Doesn't the email RFC say *@domain.com should be supported? Not that anyone
actually uses the whole RFC lol

Gary R. Schmidt

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Aug 31, 2023, 9:54:08 PM8/31/23
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Yes, but that's on the "accept-for-forwarding" part of things.

If you have it set up to accept "*@a.b.c" and forward that to
"bi...@x.y.z" then e-mail "b...@a.b.c" and "ca...@a.b.c" will both end up
in "bi...@x.y.z"'s mailbox.

Cheers,
Gary B-)
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