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I've also yet to find a website that isn't fooled by gmail's dot trick. They all thing myname@gmail.com is a different address to my.name@gmail.com. In fairness

I've also yet to find a website that isn't fooled by gmail's dot trick. They all thing myname@gmail.com is a different address to my.name@gmail.com. In fairness this is not an email standard, but you'd think devs would have copped this by now and started to recognise multiple signups from the same user

judge2020 8y ago
Validator[0] node package seems to have a "normalizeEmail" function, site operators just need to start using it. 0: https://www.npmjs.com/package/validator https://www.npmjs.com/package/validator
- sincerely 8y ago
  Or maybe they should send email to the address their users give them?
  - judge2020 8y ago
    A human creating many alt accounts may not be desirable by a website owner, so requiring multiple real email inboxes or running a mail server adds another barrier to prevent spam.
    - Drdrdrq 8y ago
      Not really. I understand why website owners would like that, but it's simply not possible. In the worst case user will use mailcatch.com, aliases or one-time email accounts. No way you can check if the e-mail address is a "real" one. Fortunatelly.
      - Xylakant 8y ago
        You can’t entirely prevent it but you can certainly raise the bar enough to deter a substantial fraction of those signing up multiple times. Whether that’s worth the effort or not it a business decision.
- claudius 8y ago
  Well now I’m really happy that some library doesn’t know how to remove the sub-addresses on my custom e-mail setup :-)
AgentME 8y ago
Other email services might not ignore periods, and might really have separate myname@example.com and my.name@example.com users. If someone is going to make a site that tries to ignore periods for equality, then they should hardcode it to email domains that they know do that.
- roryisok 8y ago
  Yes, that's what I meant by it not being a standard. They should be making a special rule for gmail
  - d_k_f 8y ago
    Honestly though: why bother? If you're really set on opening a second account, email validations won't stop you. If I as a service provider want to stop you, I'd check your address, credit card number, vat Id, etc. If you're unsure whether you've already registered an account, I could understand the frustration of finding your "proper" dot configuration, but as a developer I'd figure that to be your problem.

judge2020 8y ago

Validator[0] node package seems to have a "normalizeEmail" function, site operators just need to start using it. 0: https://www.npmjs.com/package/validator https://www.npmjs.com/package/validator

sincerely 8y ago
Or maybe they should send email to the address their users give them?
- judge2020 8y ago
  A human creating many alt accounts may not be desirable by a website owner, so requiring multiple real email inboxes or running a mail server adds another barrier to prevent spam.
  - Drdrdrq 8y ago
    Not really. I understand why website owners would like that, but it's simply not possible. In the worst case user will use mailcatch.com, aliases or one-time email accounts. No way you can check if the e-mail address is a "real" one. Fortunatelly.
    - Xylakant 8y ago
      You can’t entirely prevent it but you can certainly raise the bar enough to deter a substantial fraction of those signing up multiple times. Whether that’s worth the effort or not it a business decision.
claudius 8y ago
Well now I’m really happy that some library doesn’t know how to remove the sub-addresses on my custom e-mail setup :-)

AgentME 8y ago

Other email services might not ignore periods, and might really have separate myname@example.com and my.name@example.com users. If someone is going to make a site that tries to ignore periods for equality, then they should hardcode it to email domains that they know do that.

roryisok 8y ago
Yes, that's what I meant by it not being a standard. They should be making a special rule for gmail
- d_k_f 8y ago
  Honestly though: why bother? If you're really set on opening a second account, email validations won't stop you. If I as a service provider want to stop you, I'd check your address, credit card number, vat Id, etc. If you're unsure whether you've already registered an account, I could understand the frustration of finding your "proper" dot configuration, but as a developer I'd figure that to be your problem.