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Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don't respect. By default. Urgent.

meme not so funny

And yes, to refute some comments, this publication is being upvoted by bots. A single computer was needed, not "thousands of dollars" spent.

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[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I believe you can literally just add a . To the end of your own gmail and it will go to yours. Ie hello.1@gmail.com will go to hello@gmail.com.

[-] le__el@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Actually, hello.1@gmail will go to hello1@gmail.

The one you are thinking I believe is hello+1@gmail will go to hello@gmail

[-] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Correct, Gmail essentially doesn't "see" dots hello@gmail is the same as h.e.l.l.o@gmail

hello+anything@gmail will also be delivered to hello@gmail. This is great for signing up for mailing lists or subscriptions then creating a filter afterwards to do with it what you please.

[-] PlasmaK@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This particular quirk can be easily accounted for tbqh.

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 1 points 1 year ago

Correct, Gmail essentially doesn’t “see” dots hello@gmail is the same as h.e.l.l.o@gmail

There's one exception to that. If you originally created the email address with a dot in it, as in, signed up for gmail as "hello.2@gmail.com," it's treated as a literal character in the username portion and is required.

[-] reduce@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

It’s still not required in this case…

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 1 points 1 year ago

Then that has changed at some point. Used to be that if you registered it with a dot in the name, you had to always use that dot.

[-] fart@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

maybe in the past, but i did that a few years ago and switch between the dot and not

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it had to have changed at some point then. It used to be required that you use the dot if you registered it with the dot.

[-] gkd@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ahh, yea that's right. Regardless, just all the more reason that it's kind of silly to do what OP is talking about. Sure, you could filter out the + signs as well but overall it's a pretty pointless implementation.

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