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The only E-Mail validation involves sending an actual email with a response link. Because even if people happen to give you a functional email address, it isn'
by roc 14y ago
The only E-Mail validation involves sending an actual email with a response link.
Because even if people happen to give you a functional email address, it isn't necessarily their email address.
And I say that as someone who has come to regret registering a first-initial-last-name gmail address. And it's not even a particularly common last name.
- addlepate 14y ago> Because even if people happen to give you a functional email address, it isn't necessarily their email address. True, but also true of Mailinator. Ultimatley, we can only receive what people are willing to give in the first place.
- vincentkriek 14y agoI think the purpose of this validation is to help people who mistype their emailadress, not to check if it is their emailaddress.
- cincinnatus 14y agoRight but on a large system it is possible to mistype it to a valid address that isn't yours.
- papsosouid 14y ago>And I say that as someone who has come to regret registering a first-initial-last-name gmail address. And it's not even a particularly common last name. It is amazing how common this problem is. I assumed it was incredibly rare, but I have 23 different people who have given my email address to someone thinking it was theirs somehow. Not like "I am just signing up for some forum" kind of stuff, logins to government websites, banks, car dealerships sending me stuff about someone else's financing, etc, etc. It is crazy how many places don't verify the owner of an email address before sending it sensitive info.
- mikeash 14y agoI used to get a lot of pictures of children related to a guy with my name. That was pretty creepy.
- guptaneil 14y agoThat's happened to me. I also occasionally get hotel, flight, and restaurant reservation emails. Apparently my alter ego likes to travel.
- IvyMike 14y agoYou wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?
- drcongo 14y agoFeel my pain. I have surname at gmail.