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Re:Play with Go by alexellisuk on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:30AM (#25092844)
You get a Linux terminal, that will be why to prevent spam. The login only takes a public email address.

That's legit, think of katacoda and other e-learning platforms.

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Re:Play with Go by eplanit on Saturday November 14, 2020 @11:19AM (#25093214)
Prevent span on who, though? Generally (~99.99% of the time), providing an e-mail address is an invitation to getting spam.
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Re:Play with Go by blooalien on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:35AM (#25110197)
Assumedly to help the site owners prevent using their service to perpetrate spam against others using the Go language services/shell?
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