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by smalu 986 days ago
Using real domains (like yahoo.com) for "fake" e-mail address is not a good practice. There are domains like example.com, example.net or example.org for such purposes (RFC 2606, RFC 6761).
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That depends on what you’re trying to do. If you want it to be an obvious example, @example.com is great. If you want it to look like real data, such as in a demo or a screenshot, it’s not so great.

It’s a bit like saying that every demo user should be called John Doe or Jane Doe if they aren’t actual people.