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Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by djur on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:21PM (#16783058)
To be clear, I'm talking about what email providers could do to reduce the risk of confusion, not what email senders should do to validate emails. I agree that the only way to validate an email address is to send a confirmation.
Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by shkkmo on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:33PM (#16783124)
Except it does little to nothing to reduce confusion. It does nothing to fix the problem of people signing up using an email with a typo or with an email that doesn't actually belong to them.

This on service providers to implement secure access properly.

Re:The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user by djur on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:43PM (#16783172)
I'm not thinking primarily of transactional emails here. If Gmail allowed dots and allowed registering both "jane.smith" and "janesmith", Jane Smith would be well-advised to register both, because it's going to be the most common mistake people make. It's the same principle that suggests that if you own a .org address you should probably go ahead and buy the .com, too.