[billybob]

I have joked that I might change my name to Sample User, develop a piece of land in the country, and name my road Example Avenue, taking address 123. This would make me impervious to datamining, because my results would always be thrown out.

But a last name of 'Null' may be even better. :)

[aqme28]

On the contrary, you'd probably receive a lot of "test" mail that leaked through.

[endersshadow]

I've done data-mining on customers, and truth be told, they'll send that mail without human intervention. You wouldn't be impervious to ye olde mail merge!

[waterlesscloud]

Given how I fill out a lot of webforms, I feel sorry for whoever lives at 123 Fake St.

[protomyth]

well, Google Maps says this guy is not happy with you http://maps.google.com/maps?q=123+Fake+Street,+Chuxiong,+Yun...

[brc]

I've always had my mail forwarded to 1 Long St, Testville. I hope that guy has a big mailbox.

[jakejake]

Hehe, the person at 123 street ave will be similarly pissed because of me.

[lifeformed]

I wonder if the guys who own asdf.com ever check the email going through [e-mail]

[jaredsohn]

They do (or at least have in the past). http://www.asdf.com/asdfemail.html. Interestingly, their real e-mail address is [e-mail]

[nulluk]

There is also the guy who owns bar.com which received alot of mail to [e-mail], its worth a read if only for this paragraph.

I MX’d the mail over to a friend’s spam-detection system for about 4 hours one time, but the volume crashed his server and he asked for relief.

[Bobby_Tables]

When AOL first started allowing screen names longer than 8 characters, I knew someone who registered the name "My Documents". That got some ... interesting emails from people trying to save their downloads.

[mkopinsky]

If a patient with the last name of "Mouse" ever checks in to the hospital where I work, I have doubts about whether any of his labs will be performed. Standard practice is when creating a test user in production or placing a test order, name him Anything Mouse and people know to simply delete the request from the system.

[sequoia]

If others create dummy content anything like I do, you'd do better to name yourself asdffsadf asfafs.

[cstuder]

When a website asks me for my birthday, I usually put 01.01.1970 into it.

Any system administrator looking at that will either be amused or search for the error in his date time parser.

[kingofspain]

Oh man, reminds of the time I was working on an intranet app for a big furniture company and all test user signups were coming through as 01/01/1970. After several frustrating hours trying to track down the source of the error I had the client enter a new user in front of me to see why it was happening for them & not me. I watched in horror as he set the birth date to January 1st 1970.

He had some limited exposure to development in the past and had got into his head that this date was the Universal Developer Test Date.

[chronomex]

Funny, I've taken to using 31-Dec-1969.

[losvedir]

> develop a piece of land in the country

Careful about picking a low-populated area like this. I used to live in a town with population of about 2,000 and the post office clerks knew most everyone by name. One time I signed up for a site and just used "123 Blah St." as a placeholder address. Months later, some letter was mailed to that address, but the mail clerk, recognizing my name, just helpfully put it in my PO Box anyway!