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by: Anne Wrigley - Sat, 10 Feb 2024 01:57 UTC

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by: Your Name - Sat, 10 Feb 2024 03:21 UTC

On Saturday 30 April 2011 at 23:52:55 UTC+1, AES wrote:
> Is there any standard or conventional "black hole" dummy email address,
> analogous to /dev/null for writing to files?
> (i.e., if you send an email message to this address, it will be accepted
> by the email system, but immediately dumped, with no reply or "bounce"
> of any kind.)

Just make a throw away email address at of the numerous email providing
sites (Gmail, Yandex, GMX, ...), and then don't bother logging into it.

She sells cshs by the cshore.

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Re: /dev/null analog for email messages?	Anne Wrigley
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