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Re:DMARC required by Gmail and Yahoo from Feb 2024 by josephg on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @05:56AM (#38938849)
Hah. I have josephg@gmail. I sometimes wake up to threads of 6+ password reset attempts over an hour from someone who doesn’t know their own email address. For a couple years I got pay stubs. And monthly cell phone invoices from India.

I think that email address gets more email for other people than email for me at this point.

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Re:DMARC required by Gmail and Yahoo from Feb 2024 by guiambros on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @09:57PM (#38946915)
Same. Flights trips -- including PNR. Invoices. School reports. Tons of telephone bills. Frequent Uber trips (somewhere in Africa, for some reason). The list goes on and on. And my email address is short but not that common, but still get hit a few times per week.

It really drives me crazy that none of them have any type of email confirmation before accepting an email address as valid.

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