🔜@Raise your hand if you sent people emails from "[email protected]" in telnet via open relays when you were in sixth grade
Cletois@parataxis Sorry was more used to use [email protected], myself https://sync.appservice.fr/media/iOFj3XkoycXhq_6Y33U
Lee Brotherston@parataxis damn, I used to use [email protected] .... I think I was doing it wrong ;)
Jon Gilbert@parataxis (i mean, i was in high school, but, yeah.)
🌭@parataxis not sure why that emoji came out like that, but whatevs
will@therealklanni @parataxis I sent an email "from" one tech teacher to another via the campus SMTP and Lotus thought it was "authenticated" or something and the whole DoE freaked out. They had me do it again in front of them to prove I wasn't haxxing.
@will @parataxis haha! As far as SMTP hax, I found a bug in certain versions (mid 90s) that if you did "Y@" as the FROM it would look to the RCPT like there was no sender. Only worked if you spoke to SMTP via Telnet. No idea why.
ashley@parataxis not exactly, but if someone pissed me off i'd flood their inbox for days through the local university, and they probably had a 1MB storage limit
Howard Chu @ Symas@parataxis Kinda, but it wasn't 6th grade, and it was my own SMTP server running on my Atari ST. The whole internet was wide open back then.
DShrauger@parataxis Hmmm, 6th grade. Might have been [email protected] if I had a modem on the Apple ][e. I did have one on the Apple ][gs a couple years later. ;-)
I do use [email protected] in my example when I'm explaining spoofed addresses to users. I do like to use whatever random character pops in my head when I'm testing an email server. Like [email protected].
Ryan ✨ Pavlik@parataxis well not that precise email, but...