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Re:Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create ... by Animats on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:22PM (#50357655)
I can't even get that far in trying to sign up for Claude. Years ago, I told Constant Contact's (a/k/a Constant Spammer) legal department to block all emails to "animats.com", which was an option hidden away in their terms of service. Back then, they were just a spam service provider. Now, legit companies use them for "deliverability". Anthropic, which has some kind of co-marketing thing with Constant Contact, seems to use them for verification emails. Signup verification emails can't reach me. So I can't even start sign up.
Re:Tell HN: You now need a government id in order to create ... by Animats on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:16PM (#50407646)
Found the problem. For some reason, Anthropic's email verifier won't mail to domains hosted by Hostgator. A domain I have hosted by Dreamhost worked fine.