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go to a dot com that you know only has one or two E-mail addresses, and type in a name to it. Use something like dumbDumb at hatrack.com and it should bounce back to you since that address never exists. or should not anyway. Then you will get the information you need. YOU could even type in the note you want to see in the story for the full effect.
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Slight possibility of fail with the FakeAddress@DomainName.com - it is perfectly possible to register an email address as a "catch all" address. The most likely person to do this is the site admin, though it is less and less common these days. One of my friends had a catch-all address, which of course the rest of my friends and I used for hours of endless immature amusement. Rather than send emails to his actual address, Ben@DomainName.com, we would send it to AssHat@DomainName.com, AdultFilmDistributor@DomainName... and plenty of other things I'll refrain from posting here. Anyhow, if you send an email to DumbDumb at hatrack... or anywhere else, you might be sending an email to the admin. So, you know, someone might be reading what you're writing.
Incidentally, this is also an amusing game to play with the "for" line on checks, which is how I used to split rent with my roommates (one of us writes the check to the landlord, the rest of us write checks to him). This also works with paypal, as there is a subject line, but... well... beware. As it turns out, people actually read those (at least at paypal). If, hypothetically, you had been sending your roommate monthly rent payments with a subject line stating that the payment was for... sigh... various sexual services and/or adult-themed merchandise, your roommate might actually get his account suspended from paypal. Hilariously, of course, your account will be just fine. It turns out you aren't allowed to sell pron using paypal, and someone actually checks up on this from time to time (Not that often - it took about a year before this happened). And your roommate can get his account reinstated after calling someone at the company and explaining that his roommate has the sense of humor of a fourteen year old, but... well, that's all part of the fun, isn't it?
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