Sending blanket emails with @DoNotReply.com in them?
Tags :SMTP DoNotReply.com
I found this more than hilarious and surprising that it wasn't even registered until 2000. But if you ever send email with this domain or put your address as this, well he gets it. From the Washington Post:
When businesses want to communicate with their customers via e-mail, many send messages with a bogus return address, e.g. "somethinghere@donotreply.com." The practice is meant to communicate to recipients that any replies will go unread.
But when those messages are sent to an inactive e-mail address or the recipient ignores the instruction and replies anyway, the missives don't just disappear into the digital ether.
Instead, they land in Chet Faliszek's e-mail box
Amazingly banks and numerous companies do just this
In a blog post cleverly titled "What's in Your Return Address Field," Faliszek posted another bank screw up last month after he began receiving replies from Capital One customers inquiring about various details of their accounts. He says Capital One appears to have used donotreply.com as the return address for automated payment transfers and debits set up by customers.
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On Monday, March 31st, 2008 by Chris Miller
