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The restriction against allowing @gmail accounts to sign up is kind of insane.


Probably to discourage spam


that's bass-ackwards reasoning. i can sign up with 500 <randomness>@<my domain> emails


Only they know the patterns that spammers have used in their case. Perhaps if you did use random usernames on your domain then it would be blocklisted too.




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