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Not real, I meant 'not a bot'. Ask for email, send a link that must be clicked etc.


That doesn't answer the question. There's no particular reason a bot can't have an email address.


Maybe I'm wrong, I was always under the impressions one of the main reasons to ask for an email address was to make things more difficult for bots. Rather than just setup a script to create accounts on your server they would also need a valid email address for every attempt.




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