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Users sometimes mess up the registration form by pasting their email address as username and successfully submitting the form.

As the username is (by default) limited to 25 characters the pasted email address is truncated and the username might end up as smth. like firstname.lastname@gmail. which is not considered a valid email address and thus not blocked.

Users usually do not want their email address to be public so this causes somewhat unnecessary support workload to change their...

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