Re:Social referral hacking
by phowat on Sunday May 10, 2015 @09:26PM
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You just gave me a good idea. I have my own domain and my main email address is [email protected] . Whenever I register to any websites now I'll start using [email protected] and I'll configure my mail server to forward me anything that arrives to [email protected] and drop all mail to [email protected] .
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Don't run my own domain, but I'm thinking of creating a second gmail address for this:
* use [email protected] per site
* use a filter to forward to [email protected] everything BUT messages to: [email protected]
Re:Social referral hacking
by dannyperson on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:08AM
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Many sign up forms disallow the use of '+' in email addresses, either to prevent this, or more likely because the programmer wasn't aware it was a valid character for an email address in the first place.
Re:Social referral hacking
by thaumasiotes on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:22AM
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If you're not going to verify that the email address they're giving you is real, why restrict them to your idea of what goes in an address? I often fill in my email address as [email protected] . It's pretty easy to see that that's invalid -- to the best of my knowledge, there is no .fake TLD, and there certainly wasn't when I started doing it. But, I've never seen a form reject it.
You validate email addresses by sending confirmation emails. What's the thinking behind pretending you're doing it in the form?