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I think the point might be to confirm that the email the user is signing up with is a valid email address which belongs to them. It's especially helpful if a user wishes to reset a password. This might help prevent users from creating multiple accounts.

Sure, it's easy to get around, but for most users they simply comply. That been said we don't use email validation on any of our websites.




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