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FantasyFan said:
How do you determine what is a disposable Email address or not? I'm just curious what set's those apart from others. Is it a specific email service or what?
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Specific email services that provide a temporary email address that lasts like an hour or 24 hours. Emails like mailinator, guerillamail, etc.
 
Does this only apply to the initial sign-up, or will you be banning people who successfully sign up with e-mail addresses you believe to be disposable?
 
alethiophile answered some of these questions in a different thread:

alethiophile said:
Sceptic said:
Does this affect existing users, or does it only prevent new sign-ups using those services?
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Only new signups.

Rakdos92 said:
Are web.de or protonmail.com considered disposeable email-adresses?
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If you make an account with a password and log in to it, it doesn't count. The defining feature of the disposable sites is they accept every message incoming to them, and let anyone check any mailbox.
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tehelgee said:
Specific email services that provide a temporary email address that lasts like an hour or 24 hours. Emails like mailinator, guerillamail, etc.
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Good, I was getting somewhat worried when I saw it because "disposable e-mail" used to be synonymous with "web mail" and, well, I've been running solely on Hotmail and Gmail for fifteen years because due to ISP-hopping.
 
Winchester said:
Good, I was getting somewhat worried when I saw it because "disposable e-mail" used to be synonymous with "web mail" and, well, I've been running solely on Hotmail and Gmail for fifteen years because due to ISP-hopping.
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Google these days tends to start asking for phone numbers if you're making a bunch of accounts, makes sense if you wanna stop spammers abusing your service.
 
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