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They are probably already subscribed (to test it works). Better to enter a duff@emailaddress.com which will mess up their stats.

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I always enter something along the lines of <expletive>@<expletive>.<expletive>. My hope is that they'll waste money on trying to email it and then get a bounceback that the email failed to be delivered.

It wont cost them money if they have a double opt-in. But you will punish those without the double opt-in by pushing them up to the next tier in the payment plan sooner. The amount of money they waste one one dodgy email address is minuscule though. What is more funny is that they will see <expletive>@<expletive>.<expletive> when scrolling through their list, and you could even send them a 'message' this way. E.g. WhyTheHellYouMakeMeSignUpForThisRubbish@fakeemail.com.

You can sign up their personal facebook accounts, though – if the user is facebook.com/username123, you can register username123@facebook.com, facebook will throw the mails into the spam folder, and report them to spam lists, and the newsletter ends up getting blacklisted earlier.

Wouldn't want to meet you in a dark alley.

Well, as a girl, I learnt judo to be able to defend myself.

One of the most important lessons of judo is that you never use force yourself – you just redirect the force of the other person so they hurt themselves.

Using that philosophy in life makes stuff a lot easier ;)

And, funnily, it fits here, too. Using their own newsletter to get it blacklisted. The more they send, the less are received.

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