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

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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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    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.

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        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.

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        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.