Disagree. The services in question are not validating the address.
‘Even the most technically minded Gmail power user refers to “my email address”, not to “my infinite set of email addresses”.‘ I used to have fun sending emails to addresses with preposterous numbers of d.o.t.s due to gmail ignoring them; insightful post about why they’re bad:https://twitter.com/MrJamesFisher/status/982683299385667585 …
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I think I agree with the argument the author makes for google changing their practice so that this can be handled more gracefully
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I guess so? Users shouldn't be able to use the email address as theirs unless they can prove that they can receive it. You shouldn't send transactions stuff to an an unvalidated address.
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A TON of the junk email that makes it past gmail's spamfilters is to my email address, but with dots. I haven't figured out how to filter it all to garbage: filters seem to also ignore the dots. Down with gmail's policy of ignoring dots.
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Wait until they find out about +
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Fascinating
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Setting aside the '+' wildcard, I'm getting distracted by the repeated use of "infinite." It's 2^(n-1). Right? Plus, the problem is not the large number, it's two.
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@MrJamesFisher this still sounds like a problem at the Netflix end more than gmail to me. -
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@Netflix should be validating email account access before allowing it to be used for notifications/etc. This is why most every other service sends you a link to click via email in the setup or email change ui flow.
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