Have you ever been forced to fill out an email address in a web-form, even when you never, ever, wanted to hear form the site again?

If so, you probably lied, and made up an email address on the spot that you were sure didn’t exist.

The word “niet” is a Dutch word generally meaning “not”.

A lot of dutch internet users, when confronted with a form where they are forced to enter an email address, use an address ending in “niet.com”.

For example: “liever@niet.com” translates as “rather@not.com”. In a way, they’re telling the site the’d rather not receive anything by email.

Of course, there are more rude variants. This website lists all email received in the last month or so, destined for the niet.com domain.

THERE ARE NO VALID NIET.COM ADDRESSES.

In other words, EVERY single mail you see is a spam message from a company that forces you to enter an email address in their web forms, either directly from that company, or sold to spammers.

The mail server refuses connections from ip addresses known to be spamming, and known to be in a dial-up range. It filters virus messages out, and it filters message with a high spamassassin score, so all the mail you see is really from marketeers who think they can collect your address on a web form and then harrass you.

Well, that and the numerous "we found a virus and we threw it away" bounces. Please note: if you've got a mail server that sends out these messages, you're doing it wrong. There are just about ZERO virus versions out there that do NOT fake their return address, so you're basically harrassing an innocent victim whose address was borrowed by a virus to fake a "from" address. All you're really doing is sending out advertising for an anti-virus product, and a bad advertisement at that. Also, it broadcasts the fact that when it comes to product selection for anti-virus products you are utterly clueless. So do the world a favor and turn off those messages.

Enjoy...

You can reach the owner of this site at john@sinteur.com. This domain is for sale.