I like the SMS validation idea.  Although I imagine that many users may not
be willing to divulge their phone numbers.  What worked for me was to not
have a reply_to field, and have the sender be "
[email protected]".

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Barry Hunter <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Greg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Oct 27, 12:45 am, Joshua Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm about to move to SMS verification because if Google does it, it's
> > likely the best solution.
>
> I think the reason google do it is to manage people signing up for
> multiple accounts (lots of incentive with the generous free quota) -
> its a lot harder to get lots of disposable mobile numbers, than it is
> to get another email address.
>
> It doesnt  'verify' the email as such, so still subject to typos etc.
> It does however help with fighting spambots...
>
>
> (and search this group for links to the sms waitlist form. Lots of
> people obvisoully fail to pass sms validation)
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Cheers
> > Greg.
> >
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