Subject: INTTips: Fudging email addresses
From: tips@elementktips.com

Fudging email addresses

These days, it seems that in order to enjoy any type of commercial service 
or other Web-page goodie via the Internet, you need to provide the site 
owner with your email address--even if you don't want them to send you 
anything! If you're sick of Big Brother knowing too much about you, and 
you don't intend to accept any email communications from the site in 
question, fudge your email address. The domain names "example.com," 
"example.org." and "example.net" have been reserved by the IANA (Internet 
Assigned Numbers Authority) for experimentation and testing. You can take 
advantage of these test domain names by making up a username and tacking it 
onto any of these three test domain names. Simply use the format

username@example.com, username@example.net, or username@example.org

and replace the word "username" with any word at all. This way you remain 
anonymous and your personal information remains a secret while enabling you 
to enjoy the solicitor site's service with neither fear nor guilt.