I used to think "confirm email" fields were dumb.
But the number of times I've seen people do the likes of @hotmaol.com…
@levisan Yeah I think it helps. There's some guy in Portugal (I think) that has been using my email by accident for like 20 years now. I'm guessing it's pretty close to his, and I've gotten some pretty important looking correspondence because of it, as well as a steady stream of verification emails. I tried to get a clue to him via the 3rd parties that emailed me, but it didn't help, and now I just ignore it. I guess he wonders why computers don't work very well for him, but at least I don't get email from those companies after the first one.
@ambihelical @levisan same here! some guy in central europe who is into gaming and online gambling often uses my main gmail as his address. it's even set as the fallback for if he cant get into his google account!
@levisan @sabbatical @ambihelical I abandoned my gmail for many reasons, but one of them was that I was overrun with people who thought they had my email address. All sites should positively verify that somebody is in control of an email address before creating an account or turning on any kind of notifications. Anything less is just irresponsible.
@brad @sabbatical @ambihelical At the very least, you'd think they wouldn't want to be seen as spamming!
@sabbatical @ambihelical whaaaat both of those anecdotes are amazing!