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[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Even if it's a completely valid address and the domain exists, they still might've fat fingered the username part. Going to extreme lengths to validate email addresses is pointless, you still have to send an email to it anyway.

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I seem to have annoyed an admin of an instance enough for them to subscribe my signup email to hundreds of dating profiles (presumably using a service that offers to harass someone for you)

Many of them aren't good at validating email

One in ten has one email arrive, asking me to click a link to confirm

9 in ten have 5 emails before I notice them:

Please click a link to confirm
You received a wink
You received a wink
You received 3 chat requests
You received a link

So it's important to not send emails beyond the validate one to unvalidated addresses, to perfect your service annoying or harassing this parties

Also, use a disposable address for signing up to Lemmy

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