According to developer guidance highlighted on Hacker News, there's a common anti-pattern: using email verification emails to test whether an address is actually valid. Sending such messages is essentially spam—it floods inboxes with unsolicited requests just to confirm an address exists. A better approach: validate email format directly, and let users confirm their address deliberately, rather than treating verification as an existence probe.

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