Don’t verify email addresses by sending spam to them

▤ Summary

This piece criticizes a questionable email validation approach that triggers unwanted messages just to test whether an address is real. It shows how Pangram’s sign-up flow appears to send a live email after a validation request, which can look like spam. The article also highlights that the sender infrastructure rotates through many domains and retries delivery when blocked. It argues that this method is self-defeating because content filtering or spam defenses will cause the validation to fail anyway. The post ends by questioning whether a SaaS tool or automated agent produced the workflow.

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