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It seems like it mixes up things people believe and things that people do for ease of use/ease of life, like:

>Anyone with a .edu address is a student >Anyone with a .edu address is a student or faculty

I dont think most people believe that, but its a easy filter if you want to give rebates to students and they dont cost you too much, like dropbox giving increased free quota to people who sign up with a .edu

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Which I've had failed as a student in Australia, as we use .edu.au (not for Dropbox, but other services).

As you said though, its a simple test, and if you don't think about it too much, its too easy to just test the email ends in .edu and move onto the next task.

Sure, if you go for international markets you have a lot more work to do. But in most countries you cant use extension to verify anything. I had a .edu as a university student in denmark, but I think my dapartment was the only danish education instituion who had that, the rest just used normal .dk domains.

My university has lifetime email forwarding; so I use my .edu address as my main personal email address. (I tell people, "In 30 years, it you email that address, it should still get to me.") I once signed up for a SaaS team workflow thing with my personal email address, thinking about trying to use it w/ my family to try to work together on a project; and within a day or two got a call from someone from that company obviously hoping I was actually a decision-maker at that university. Sorry...

Yeah like "everyone has an email address", of course not everyone has one, but if you don't, you're simply not going to be our client.

And I'm not even sure what this "everyone has exactly one email address" is about.

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