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I've been looking at reddit.com and they don't require new users to enter an email address. Instead, they only require users to enter a captcha.
I've been considering only using recaptcha to verify new users, instead of both an email address and captcha like many sites do.
What is the use of verifying both an email address and a captcha? It seems more likely that a bot could spoof an email verification instead of a captcha.
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Real customers start with real emails - and the use of email validation is still the most effective way to ensure the collection of quality data. When you verify email addresses your email marketing is more effective, fraud prevention is improved and the ability to protect your sender reputation increases.
Email validation is a procedure that helps identify if an email address is free of typos. Basically, email validation aims to detect and prevent typos in email syntax and invalid email addresses being entered into any forms.
Use an email verification tool An email validation tool can help you do all the technical verifications in one go. You just need to add the email list, and the automated system will verify all the email addresses for you.
Really good email verification tools have accuracy rates as high as 99%, and many will guarantee bounce rates under 2% or 3% after cleaning.
I've lost my Reddit password — and there's no way to restore it.
The point of having a validated email is not only seeing that someone can receive an email and click a link in it; a robot can do this, too. The email is a route back to the user: it serves to restore lost passwords (and people do forget passwords), to notify of important events, etc.
OpenID is also a great registration / login option, minimum hassle for the user, and you get a validated email with it, too.
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