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Yeah, skip all that too. Who says yahhoo.com isn't a valid ___domain?

For example, I regularly receive email for an individual who has a nearly identical email address to my own, but at ymail.com instead of gmail.com. Any system that tries to guess at ___domain misspellings is going to catch ymail.com and think "Ah ha, they meant to type gmail.com, I'll correct that for them!" Viola, their email is sent to me. Again, this is not a theory, it happens to this poor guy all the time.




Just having a simple warning should not be a problem though as long as never do change the input of the user.


Like mailcheck.js I mentioned in other part of this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4486341




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