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I have joked that I might change my name to Sample User, develop a piece of land in the country, and name my road Example Avenue, taking address 123. This would
by billybob 14y ago
I have joked that I might change my name to Sample User, develop a piece of land in the country, and name my road Example Avenue, taking address 123. This would make me impervious to datamining, because my results would always be thrown out.
But a last name of 'Null' may be even better. :)
- aqme28 14y agoOn the contrary, you'd probably receive a lot of "test" mail that leaked through.
- endersshadow 14y agoI've done data-mining on customers, and truth be told, they'll send that mail without human intervention. You wouldn't be impervious to ye olde mail merge!
- waterlesscloud 14y agoGiven how I fill out a lot of webforms, I feel sorry for whoever lives at 123 Fake St.
- protomyth 14y agowell, Google Maps says this guy is not happy with you http://maps.google.com/maps?q=123+Fake+Street,+Chuxiong,+Yunnan,+China&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=60.028724,93.251953&oq=%22123+Fake+St.%22&t=h&hnear=Fa+Ke+Jie,+Mou+Ding+Xian,+Chuxiong,+Yunnan,+China&z=17 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=123+Fake+Street,+Chuxiong,+Yun...
- brc 14y agoI've always had my mail forwarded to 1 Long St, Testville. I hope that guy has a big mailbox.
- jakejake 14y agoHehe, the person at 123 street ave will be similarly pissed because of me.
- lifeformed 14y agoI wonder if the guys who own asdf.com ever check the email going through asdf@asdf.com
- jaredsohn 14y agoThey do (or at least have in the past). http://www.asdf.com/asdfemail.html http://www.asdf.com/asdfemail.html. Interestingly, their real e-mail address is jklsemicolon@asdf.com
- Bobby_Tables 14y agoWhen AOL first started allowing screen names longer than 8 characters, I knew someone who registered the name "My Documents". That got some ... interesting emails from people trying to save their downloads.
- nulluk 14y agoThere is also the guy who owns bar.com which received alot of mail to foo@bar.com, its worth a read if only for this paragraph. I MX’d the mail over to a friend’s spam-detection system for about 4 hours one time, but the volume crashed his server and he asked for relief.
- sequoia 14y agoIf others create dummy content anything like I do, you'd do better to name yourself asdffsadf asfafs.
- mkopinsky 14y agoIf a patient with the last name of "Mouse" ever checks in to the hospital where I work, I have doubts about whether any of his labs will be performed. Standard practice is when creating a test user in production or placing a test order, name him Anything Mouse and people know to simply delete the request from the system.
- cstuder 14y agoWhen a website asks me for my birthday, I usually put 01.01.1970 into it. Any system administrator looking at that will either be amused or search for the error in his date time parser.
- chronomex 14y agoFunny, I've taken to using 31-Dec-1969.
- kingofspain 14y agoOh man, reminds of the time I was working on an intranet app for a big furniture company and all test user signups were coming through as 01/01/1970. After several frustrating hours trying to track down the source of the error I had the client enter a new user in front of me to see why it was happening for them & not me. I watched in horror as he set the birth date to January 1st 1970. He had some limited exposure to development in the past and had got into his head that this date was the Universal Developer Test Date.
- losvedir 14y ago> develop a piece of land in the country Careful about picking a low-populated area like this. I used to live in a town with population of about 2,000 and the post office clerks knew most everyone by name. One time I signed up for a site and just used "123 Blah St." as a placeholder address. Months later, some letter was mailed to that address, but the mail clerk, recognizing my name, just helpfully put it in my PO Box anyway!