Please. Captcha by default. Email domain filters. Auto-block federation from servers that don't respect. By default. Urgent.
And yes, to refute some comments, this publication is being upvoted by bots. A single computer was needed, not "thousands of dollars" spent.
I believe you can literally just add a . To the end of your own gmail and it will go to yours. Ie hello.1@gmail.com will go to hello@gmail.com.
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
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.
This particular quirk can be easily accounted for tbqh.
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.
maybe in the past, but i did that a few years ago and switch between the dot and not
Yeah, it had to have changed at some point then. It used to be required that you use the dot if you registered it with the dot.
It’s still not required in this case…
Then that has changed at some point. Used to be that if you registered it with a dot in the name, you had to always use that dot.
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.