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Post by leowoo91 » Wed, Feb 06, 2019, 11:51 PM UTC

codetrotter wrote: post #60

leowoo91 wrote: post #44

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Then better alternative would be to develop a unique mail check functionality ignoring the + part. Maybe that could work for both sides.

When I helped my grand parents set up GMail they decided that they wanted one shared email account instead of one each. That has worked very well for them. Old people have enough to keep track of already so a shared email inbox for the both of them is great. My grandfather uses the GMail web app on his Mac desktop and my grandma uses the GMail app for iOS on her iPad. However, when I set up Apple ID for each of them…

Post by megous » Thu, Feb 07, 2019, 12:04 AM UTC

rcfox wrote: post #71

I've always wanted sort of the opposite. I'd sign up to a website, and they wouldn't ask for a password. To login, they would email a link to click and I'd be logged in for however long that cookie lasted. Why don't sites do that? (Is email still considered slow? I remember having wait times in the hours back in the 90s, but I'm not sure I've ever waited anywhere near a minute in the past decade.)

Post by ian0 » Thu, Feb 07, 2019, 12:42 AM UTC

colechristensen wrote: post #164

Semaphor wrote: post #75

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I have first.last@gmail.com and I've had people play poker and lottery and sign up for dating websites with my e-mail address. I've also received confidential information from insurance and building construction companies. It's hilarious.

At this point I feel like I've shared a life with some of the others at this point. There are several people who share my name who continually give out my address. I get school closings, invites to pie socials at churches, family pictures, conservative newsletters, and much more. Once I was told about "my" enlistment in the reserves of some armed service. That one I replied to and got a very polite response from some…

Post by brewtide » Thu, Feb 07, 2019, 1:40 AM UTC

Semaphor wrote: post #75

nine_k wrote: post #23

This is delightfully crazy. Give some random guys with no website your registration record somewhere, allow them to verify your registration as theirs, and then impersonate you, reset passwords, see any communications, possibly log in as yourself and do anything. All this with no recourse. Nigerian spammers moan from envy for such a brilliant self-propelled gullibility filter.

I have first.last@gmail.com and I've had people play poker and lottery and sign up for dating websites with my e-mail address. I've also received confidential information from insurance and building construction companies. It's hilarious.

Post by justwalt » Thu, Feb 07, 2019, 2:47 AM UTC

LCoder wrote: post #115

nine_k wrote: post #23

This is delightfully crazy. Give some random guys with no website your registration record somewhere, allow them to verify your registration as theirs, and then impersonate you, reset passwords, see any communications, possibly log in as yourself and do anything. All this with no recourse. Nigerian spammers moan from envy for such a brilliant self-propelled gullibility filter.

I own a domain which a lot of people on the Internet like to randomly type in when they are signing up for things. It is ridiculous how many services accepted those fake email addresses over the years and therefor how many accounts I could reset passwords for.