Are people really this uneducated about the internet?
 

While reviewing some new accounts on 1 of my forums this morning, I noticed that one of the users put "www." in front of their email address. Not being quite sure if the email service they used allowed that, I sent an email to it, which bounced back "undeliverable". Out of curiosity, I did a query for email addresses with www in them. Much to my surprise I got 183 returns back. Low and behold, they were all in the 'Users awaiting email confirmation' group! Has anyone else noticed this trend on their forums?

yeah, i saw a lot of www. emails as well :)

lol i have never had that :) That my friend, is pure stupidity :)

I have it quite often, I've seen business cards for professional companies with www. on them too lol. You can accept www. emails, but only if you have the catch all function in action - but then obviously it won't go to the real account, only to where all emails with unspecified users are directed.

I've seen a good few of that.

Also have seen screennames without any @whereever.com.

I don't know if any of you have ever noticed this, but on a new installation of both vBulletin 2 and vBulletin 3 (to my knowledge), the Site contact email has always been:

webmaster@www.yoursite.com (when your board is installed on yoursite.com, for instance)

Odd isn't it;)

Satan

lol, I've had over 50 of those folks putting www at the begining of their email.. :D

not entirely odd, though. "www" is nothing but a subdomain. Just like how forums in forums.site.com is a subdomain, so is www a subdomain in any site where the url is www.site.com. And as I'm sure everyone here knows, subdomains can be used in email addresses too. Never seen a someone@foo.bar.mit.edu address? or something similar. I'm sure you have. That could just as easily be @www.something.com - the only difference is that generally, nobody with clue makes their subdomain a working part of the email domain, and hence, using that will bounce (as for the email protocol it shows up as inexistant).

You can do all sortsa fun things with all this. :)

117 for us.

No comments. :)

I found 13 on my forums. :)