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

meme not so funny

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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      1 year ago

      Actually, hello.1@gmail will go to hello1@gmail.

      The one you are thinking I believe is hello+1@gmail will go to hello@gmail

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        Correct, Gmail essentially doesn’t “see” dots hello@gmail is the same as h.e.l.l.o@gmail

        hello+anything@gmail will also be delivered to hello@gmail. This is great for signing up for mailing lists or subscriptions then creating a filter afterwards to do with it what you please.

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          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 “hello.2@gmail.com,” it’s treated as a literal character in the username portion and is required.

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        Ahh, yea that’s right. Regardless, just all the more reason that it’s kind of silly to do what OP is talking about. Sure, you could filter out the + signs as well but overall it’s a pretty pointless implementation.