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Comment by zinxq | Hacker News Reader

Wow. Do my daily HN scan for the day and find an article you wrote ~4 years at #1.

I hadn't read that in many years, and what fun to do a re-read.

Thanks Internet - don't stop being you.

I was sad to see that the link to the domain generator was broken. The new one on the home page is a div that's generated server-side.

I hope you don't mind that I wrote a quick one-liner to see if you're still detecting bots...

    @bobmail.info
    @zippymail.info
    @thisisnotmyrealemail.com
    @spamhereplease.com
    @safetymail.info
    @suremail.info
    @mailinator2.com
    @spamherelots.com
    @mailinator2.com
    @spamhereplease.com
    @spamherelots.com
    @spamherelots.com
    @mailinator.net
    @mailinator.net
    @mailinator2.com
    @mailinator.net
    @mailinator.net
    @mailinator2.com
    @mailinator.net
    ...

Yup :)

I didn't see any "evil" insertions, though...

I tried something similar and got a similar pattern. After a few changes, I just started seeing mailinator and mailinator2 over and over.

I saw the same, but just by refreshing a bunch of times.

It looks like an exponential backoff except that it starts to favor the generic domains instead of refusing connections.

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