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And the advice here, which I agree with, is to skip your steps 2 & 3.


Eh, I don't think having a site that allows people to sign up on behalf of other people easily is a good thing.


As someone who owns {commonFirstName}{commonLastName}@gmail.com, I _hate_ services that don't require you to validate the e-mail address you sign up with. And there's a special place in hell reserved for people who write services which don't validate the e-mail you sign up with, but do require you to sign in with your credentials in order to unsubscribe.


lol@gmail.com whoever owns this, hates their life.


Unfortunately no one can own that :) Google doesn't allow email id with less than 5 chars (to mitigate random spamming)


Thanks for the info. I don't feel bad anymore.


how about asdf@gmail.com?


Surely you mean aoeu@gmail.com?


And if you skip 3 I will report any automatically sent mail as spam where ever I can in the hopes of getting you on as many blacklists as possible.


You should only report spam that is actually spam.


It is spam if you allow X to sign Y up for automated mails without confirmation. In Germany we even have laws against that.




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