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This doesn't seem like a reason not to do address based limiting, just a reason it wouldn't be perfect. Perfect is the enemy of good.

• kolinko 3mo ago
  If you live in a house you can generate tens of thousands of addresses that will be delivered to you without much problem. You just begin inventing apt. numbers - having up to a thousand apts in a building is not suspicious. And once you cross a thousand, you can invent new buildings by strapping letter names to your home number, so that gives you a-z * 1000 = 24000 unique addresses you can generate easily. Without much hassle you could extend that to a million. Requiring a unique mailing address is just as pointless as a unique email.
  • apple4ever 3mo ago
    But we have databases of addresses and we can tell if it actually has 1000 apartments.
    • ill13 3mo ago
      Who's updating those db's when I turn my single family in to a tri-plex , then convert it to an 10 unit apartment complex? The answer is "no one".
      • Strom 3mo ago
        That depends on where you live. In my country the government keeps an up-to-date db. Everything else in the country depends on and queries that db too, so it's not isolated.