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.

    • @le__el
      link
      211 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
        link
        71 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.

        • tool
          link
          fedilink
          11 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 “[email protected],” it’s treated as a literal character in the username portion and is required.

            • tool
              link
              fedilink
              English
              11 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.

            • tool
              link
              fedilink
              11 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.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        31 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.