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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by alert@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 1 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

It’s still not required in this case…

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 1 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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.

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