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The mist of the www (feddit.org)

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[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago

You see the registration problem in so many places. If the username is an email, the proper way to validate it without revealing if an account exists is to accept any email address and if it already exists say that in the registration email you would send anyway. With the appropriate throttling if needed.