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> If a bot creates an account with someone else’s email, the victim gets one email, if they ignore it that’s the end of it. The welcome email and everything after it only fires once the user verifies.

As a user, I would prefer no welcome email at all.

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Yeah, thats part of why I hate "login with SERVICE". The big benefit would be not spamming me, but they always insist on getting my email.

There was a time were you would have to select "sign me up for your newsletter" then you had to uncheck it. Then you had to check to not get an email and now you don't even get that choice.

And lately? You have to go dig through your email because you can't set a password (looking at you Claude), so you can't filter email.

I don't mind getting a welcome email. It also tells me when somebody has attempted to sign up for a service using my email address.

What I find annoying is services that only send the welcome email once, and don't let you resend it if you never receive it.

I suspect everyone feels that way except SaaS providers. They could just give you a checkbox to turn the newsletter off, but they don't.

Then there's no verification step, preventing the entire mechanism of you not getting spammed.

It sounds like cuu508 didn't want the post-verification welcome, as opposed to the one-time verification message.

Correct.

Yes, correct. When I clicked the link I was already welcomed by the welcome page (which is, for the most part, welcomed). But then why send me another email further welcoming me? I already feel welcomed! And don't give me any of that "because it works" BS (even though that is what you are going to say).

(cuu508, "you" in this instance does not mean you)

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