I found a couple of interesting websites today. You enter an email address and it tells you whether it is genuine or a made up on.
So regulars on here naturally came up as genuine. Some of the others showed up as 'Bad' because they had no history so were made up for joining places like this forum.
And a couple who I was sure were not genuine (these members joined a couple of years ago and have headaches) actually used valid email addressees that while they may not be their 'personal' email they use regularly for other places like facebook, flickr, youtube etc.
So regulars on here naturally came up as genuine. Some of the others showed up as 'Bad' because they had no history so were made up for joining places like this forum.
And a couple who I was sure were not genuine (these members joined a couple of years ago and have headaches) actually used valid email addressees that while they may not be their 'personal' email they use regularly for other places like facebook, flickr, youtube etc.