Even though a service might desperately want to know my personal and/or business email address, and disguise that desire with the usual "Hey, just use your email address as your login username!", doesn't mean I have to comply. Unless they're prepared to accept responsibility to disclosure of my address, I feel perfectly happy taking the required measures to minimise those risks myself - no matter what they attempt to enforce with crappy email validation or ToS requirements.
(And, although Dropbox have finally arrived in their forum-thread ~24hrs late apologising for their "community moderators" calling their customers idiots, the responses from Nathan and especially Chris only strengthen my resolve to ignore any attempt by companies/services to gain access to my personal email addresses as part of their user databases.)
Even though a service might desperately want to know my personal and/or business email address, and disguise that desire with the usual "Hey, just use your email address as your login username!", doesn't mean I have to comply. Unless they're prepared to accept responsibility to disclosure of my address, I feel perfectly happy taking the required measures to minimise those risks myself - no matter what they attempt to enforce with crappy email validation or ToS requirements.
(And, although Dropbox have finally arrived in their forum-thread ~24hrs late apologising for their "community moderators" calling their customers idiots, the responses from Nathan and especially Chris only strengthen my resolve to ignore any attempt by companies/services to gain access to my personal email addresses as part of their user databases.)